AMADE group is happy to have had Ms. Carolina Furtado from the University of Porto performing a short experimental campaign in our facilities from 23-10-2017 to 4-11-2017 on the experimental determination of the crack resistance curves of thin-ply nano-reinforced interfaces under supervision of Prof. Pedro...
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...
During the week of March 5th-9th, 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. Frederic Laurin (ONERA) and Dr. Giuseppe Catalanotti (Queen's University, Belfast). Dr. Laurin will give us 4...
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 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...
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...