Magdalena Pérez greets us from the Empa, the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology. She has been working there for three months, among other things, on the implementation of an MMB test, on the test of wood adhesive joints and on using accoustic...
Presentation of the PhD disertation "A contribution to understand CAI of composite laminates" by Yi Liv Yi Liv has presented a disertation on the influence of the layup on the CAI strength of laminates. An experimental investigation has been carried out to validate the hypothesis that...
AMADE has a brand new multifatigue test rig for the mode II and mixed mode testing of interlaminar fracture. As can be seen in the video, this test rig, similar to the one we have for mode I, allows the simultaneous testing of different specimens and...
The University of Girona has hosted the winter meeting of the fib Task Group 2.1 “Serviceability Models”. The meeting took place on 22 January 2018 with the participation of 17 members. The main current objectives of the group are the publications of technical reports...
A new paper published by J. Llobet et al. (A fatigue damage and residual strength model for unidirectional carbon/epoxy Composites under on-axis tension-tension loadings) is included in the October issue of the International Journal of Fatigue. It presents a phenomenological model for the prediction of...
Laura Carreras has been this June in the International Fatigue Conference held in Rhodes (Greece) to give a presentation based on L. Carreras et al. An efficient methodology for the experimental characterization of mode II and mixed-mode I+II delamination growth under fatigue loading. This study...
Three contributions from AMADE members have been presented in MATCOMP 2017 (San Sebastián): Pérez-Galmés, J. Renart, C. Sarrado, J.Costa and A.Rodríguez-Bellido’s contribution “Configuración del ensayo ELS para la determinación de la tenacidad a la fractura en modo II en uniones adhesivas” proposes a strategy to successfully...
A stay of three months of the student Aida Cameselle, from the EPFL (Switzerland) has concluded on May 31th. Her work has focused on the study of 3D crack propagation in GFRP (Glass Fibre Reinforced Plates) using cohesive elements in FE simulations. She has been...
Last Friday AMADE was in several newspapers due to a CleanSky project: http://www.lavanguardia.com/vida/20170526/422955300893/la-udg-participa-en-el-projecte-dun-motor-davio-que-reduira-el-combustible-en-un-30-40.html http://www.elperiodico.com/es/noticias/politica/udg-participa-creacion-motor-avion-que-reducira-combustible-6063748 http://www.diaridegirona.cat/cultura/2017/05/26/udg-participa-projecte-dun-motor/848414.html AMADE tested the composite materials in different environmental conditions, performed Finite Element Analysis and designed the Lightcowls for this Cleansky project managed by EURECAT. ...
Last April 20th, the AMADE's researcher Adrián Ortega got his PhD in Technology for the research work titled: Characterization of the translaminar cohesive law Advisors: Dr. Pere Maimí and Dr. Emilio V. González Description The outstanding stiffness and strength properties, with respect to their weight, of fibre-reinforced polymers have led to an...