Defects can occur naturally during composite fabrication, and damage can be induced by impacts in service, but these tend to be relatively uncontrolled events. It was desired to induce an easily ...

Compression testing is used to determine how a product or material reacts when it is compressed, squashed, crushed or flattened by measuring fundamental parameters that determine the specimen behavior ...

There is an important, ongoing debate in aerospace composites. Critics of the “building block approach” (BBA) used to generate design allowables claim that the required testing of thousands of ...

Formula one car monocoques, aircraft structural components, bridge support sections and boat hulls are all examples of structures that can be fabricated from fibre reinforced polymers such as carbon ...