AMADE has been very well represented in the European Conference of Composite Materials - ECCM 2018 in Athens (June 25 to 28). Albert Turon, Norbert Blanco, Magdalena Pérez, Jordi Llobet, Aravind Sasikumar and Rodrigo Tavares have had the opportunity to communicate their latest advances in...
The contribution “Progressive Damage Modelling of open-hole carbon/epoxy laminates under tension-tension fatigue loadings” by J. Llobet, P. Maimí, A. Turon, B. L. V. Bak, E. Lindgaard, Y. Essa and F. M. de la Escalera has been presented by Jordi Llobet in the International Conference on...
Santiago García has been in the ESMC 2018 – 10th European Solid Mechanics Conference, held in Bologna (Italy) from July 2 to 6 presenting a contribution by S.M. García-Rodríguez, J. Costa, V. Singery and A. Sasikumar named On how matrix cracking induces delamination under out-of-plane...
AMADE congratulates Ahmed Wagih Abdallah for the successful presentation of his PhD Dissertation on May 28. The main goal of the contribution is to provide a scaling tool to predict the response of composite structures under out-of-plane loading by testing small coupons. In order to...
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...