Damage growth in aerospace composites

Introduction.- Detailed methodologies for integrated delamination growth and fiber-matrix damage progression simulation.- Delamination Growth in Composite Plates under Fatigue Loading Conditions.- Influence of intralaminar damage on the delamination crack evolution.- Microdamage modeling in laminates.- Finite element study of delaminations in notched composites.- Effect of the damage extension through the thickness on the calculation of the residual strength of impacted composite laminates.- A Fast Numerical Methodology for Delamination Growth Initiation Simulation.- An Experimental Study on the strength of out of plane loaded composite structures.- Buckling and collapse tests using advanced measurement systems.- Vacuum infusion manufacturing of CFRP panels with induced delamination.- Lock-in Thermography to detect delamination in Carbon Fibers Reinforced Polymers (Carosena Meola and Giovanni M. Carlomagno).