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22 Jul The PhD thesis “Improving compression after impact response of composite laminates through ply level hybridization with thin plies and unsymmetrical designs” has been presented by Aravind Sasikumar

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Aravind Sasikumar has achieved his PhD Degree July 18th in the conference hall of the Polytechnic School of the University of Girona after presenting his thesis “Improving compression after impact response of composite laminates through ply level hybridization with thin plies and unsymmetrical designs”. The main...

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15 Jul Presentation of Dr. Gerard Guillamet

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Last 10th July, Dr. Gerard Guillamet, who did his PhD in AMADE, has been invited to our facilities to give a seminar on "Residual Strength and Structural Health monitoring using High Performance Computing”, a research he is currently developing at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)....

05 Jul Presentation of the PhD dissertation “X-ray Tomography Investigation of the Impact Damage Mechanism of Thin-Ply Composites and the Use of Veils to Improve their Impact Tolerance” by Santiago García Rodríguez

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On June 28th , Santiago García has presented his PhD thesis in the conference hall of the Polytechnic School. This contribution has focused on understanding how ply-thickness affects the out-of-plane response of thin quasi-isotropic non-crimp fabric laminates and on enhancing the impact tolerance of the...

29 Abr Unsymmetrical stacking sequences as a novel approach to tailor damage resistance under out-of-plane impact loading

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It can be said that it is common wisdom that laminates must be symmetric. However, in some special cases, the use of unsymmetrical laminates can be of advantage when the load cases induce unevenly distributed stresses. This recent contribution by AMADE members has explored this...

29 Abr Virtual calculation of the B-value allowables of notched composite laminates.

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The Composite Structures issue of last March includes a paper that addresses the problem of defining the design parameters (B-basis design allowables) that are to be used in notched configurations of CFRP laminates. The allowables must account for the manufacturing, geometrical and microstructure variability. Usually,...

24 Abr Presentation of the PhD dissertation “Development of efficient numerical models for the simulation of low velocity impact and compression after impact on composite structures” by Albert Soto Masip

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On September 7th , AMADE’s PhD student Albert Soto has very satisfactorily presented his PhD dissertation. This contribution is aimed at imporving the design of relatively large composite sub-components under the potential failure caused by low velocity impact (LVI) and subjected to Compression After Impact...

04 Mar Master MMS’s Seminars: invited professors 2018/2019

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During the week of March 4th-8th, and in the framework of the Master's Mechanics of Materials and Structures we will receive the visit of two leading researchers on composites: Dr. Silvestre Pinho (Imperial College of London) and Dr. Julien Jumel (Université of Boudeaux). Dr. Pinho is...

29 Nov Composites 2019 conference will be held next September in Girona.

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7th ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on the Mechanical Response of Composites, Composites 2019, will be held at Girona between 18 and 20 of September. The main goal of Composites 2019 is the scientific investigation of complex mechanical behaviour of composite materials and structures. The conference focuses on...

27 Nov Light weight airframe structures through combination with high performance materials

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LightAir, a project funded by the Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking, aims at qualifying new high performance materials for helicopter airframe structures following the classical building block approach. The project, which started on the 1st of November, will be focused on the material characterization of...

08 Sep A 3D tomographic investigation to elucidate the low-velocity Impact resistance, tolerance and damage sequence of thin non-crimp fabric laminates: effect of ply-thickness

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The October ’18 issue of Composites Part A includes a contribution by S. García-Rodríguez et al. that compares the out-of-plane response of thin-plies with that of standard-ply samples. Damage initiation and propagation has been detailed using quasi-static indentation and impact tests at incremental energy levels,...

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