Detailed experimental validation and benchmarking of six models for longitudinal tensile failure of unidirectional composites

Accepted/In Press date: 12 October 2021

e-pub ahead of print date: 16 October 2021

Published date: 1 January 2022

Additional Information: Funding Information: The research leading to these results has been conducted in the framework of the FiBreMoD project and has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Sk?odowska-Curie grant agreement No. 722626. Compressive tests on the neat epoxy resin were performed at the mechanical lab of the Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (IMMC), Universit? Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) with the kind support of J. Chevalier and T. Pardoen. M.J. Emerson from QIM, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is thankfully acknowledged for the hands-on training sessions and support of the Insegt Fibre segmentation toolbox. Support of C. Schlep?tz from TOMCAT beamline at Swiss Light Source for optimising the acquisition settings during the beamtimes under proposal IDs 20161157 and 20171494 is thankfully acknowledged. J.M. Guerrero would like to acknowledge the grant BES-2016-078270 from the ?Subprograma Estatal de Formaci?n del MICINN? co-financed by the European Social Fund, and all authors from the University of Girona acknowledge the funding from the Spanish project RTI2018-097880-B-I00. The work of M. Hajikazemi forms part of the research programme of DPI, project 812 T17. S. Pimenta acknowledges the funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering in the scope of her Research Fellowship on ?Multiscale discontinuous composites for high-volume and sustainable applications? (2015-2019). R.P. Tavares and P.P. Camanho would like to thank the financial support provided by FCT - Funda??o para a Ci?ncia e a Tecnologia through National Funds in the scope of project MITP-TB/PFM/0005/2013. The authors would also like to thank A.R. Bunsell, S. Joann?s, J. Rojek and A. Thionnet for their help in setting up the instructions. Funding Information: The research leading to these results has been conducted in the framework of the FiBreMoD project and has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No. 722626. Compressive tests on the neat epoxy resin were performed at the mechanical lab of the Institute of Mechanics, Materials and Civil Engineering (IMMC), Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) with the kind support of J. Chevalier and T. Pardoen. M.J. Emerson from QIM, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) is thankfully acknowledged for the hands-on training sessions and support of the Insegt Fibre segmentation toolbox. Support of C. Schlepütz from TOMCAT beamline at Swiss Light Source for optimising the acquisition settings during the beamtimes under proposal IDs 20161157 and 20171494 is thankfully acknowledged. J.M. Guerrero would like to acknowledge the grant BES-2016-078270 from the ‘Subprograma Estatal de Formación del MICINN’ co-financed by the European Social Fund, and all authors from the University of Girona acknowledge the funding from the Spanish project RTI2018-097880-B-I00. The work of M. Hajikazemi forms part of the research programme of DPI, project 812 T17. S. Pimenta acknowledges the funding from the Royal Academy of Engineering in the scope of her Research Fellowship on “Multiscale discontinuous composites for high-volume and sustainable applications” (2015-2019). R.P. Tavares and P.P. Camanho would like to thank the financial support provided by FCT - Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia through National Funds in the scope of project MITP-TB/PFM/0005/2013. The authors would also like to thank A.R. Bunsell, S. Joannès, J. Rojek and A. Thionnet for their help in setting up the instructions. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier Ltd

Keywords: Fracture, Material modelling, Polymer-matrix composites (PMCs), X-ray computed tomography

Local EPrints ID: 451945

URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/451945

DOI: doi:10.1016/j.compstruct.2021.114828

ISSN: 0263-8223

PURE UUID: 733a9a56-28a8-402e-9a68-1e53ab3e30bc

ORCID for Mark Spearing: orcid.org/0000-0002-3059-2014

Date deposited: 04 Nov 2021 17:32

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