The Composite Structures issue of May 2018 includes a paper by Emara, M. et al. named Bond response of NSM CFRP strips in concrete under sustained loading and different temperature and humidity conditions. It presents the result of an experimental study on the performance of...
AMADE’s Testing Lab was audited again for the existing Nadcap scope. There were no findings and while fulfilling also other criteria defined in the Nadcap merit program, AMADE achieved the extension of accreditation length until 24 months. Nadcap is a cooperative industry effort to improve quality...
AMADE has been certified to ISO9001 for several years, but up until now to the 2008 version of the standard. In the annual audit, the system was audited for the first time to the 2015 version of the standard. This certification audit confirmed the success...
Mohamed Emara, who has developed his PhD research within the AMADE group has just presented his PhD disertation where he discusses the results of two experimental campaigns designed to characterize the behavior of Near-Surface Mounted (NSM) concrete reinforcements in the long term. These consist of...
The paper Low velocity impact and compression after impact simulation of thin ply laminates by Soto et al., published in the 109 issue of the Composites Part A journal describes how a new methodology to perform LVI and CAI numerical tests has been proven accurate...
A contribution named Experimental methodology for obtaining fatigue crack growth rate curves in mixed-mode I-II by means of variable cyclic displacement tests has been published by I. Jaeck et al. (amog them several AMADE members) in the International Journal of Fatigue. It presents a novel...
Creep happens when a loaded material suffers plastic deformation increase over time. It is heavily influenced by temperature and humidity. The study Effect of sustained loading and environmental conditions on the creep behavior of an epoxy adhesive for concrete structures strengthened with CFRP laminates by...
A strategy to improve the damage resistance of thin laminates is to interleave non-woven veils into the interlaminar regions. In their paper The effect interleaving has on thin-ply non-crimp fabric laminate impact response: X-ray tomography investigation, S.M. García-Rodríguez et al. present interesting results obtained with...
The contribution A 3D Progressive Failure Model for predicting pseudo-ductility in hybrid unidirectional composite materials under fibre tensile loading by J.M. Guerrero et al. has been published in the journal Composites: Part A. A 3D failure model is proposed that includes progressive damage and pseudo-ductile...
We are glad to announce our participation in “FORUM INDUSTRIAL 2018” (25th April; Girona) to explain you the details of the AMADE's research group and our Master of Science in Mechanics of Materials and Structures (mastermms.udg.edu)!! We would like to see you there!! More info: forum-industrial ...