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Damage In Non-Crimp Fabric Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites Under Various Mechanical Loading Conditions, Aaditya Pradeep Suratkar
Damage In Non-Crimp Fabric Carbon Fiber Reinforced Epoxy Composites Under Various Mechanical Loading Conditions, Aaditya Pradeep Suratkar
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Composite materials have emerged in the recent years as a frontrunning lightweight replacement for metals for structural applications in lightweight automobiles. However, the key adoption criteria for composites in lightweight vehicles is their crashworthiness, i.e., the amount of energy a structure made with composites would absorb in a crash event. The energy is absorbed in composites through various damage modes such as matrix cracks, delamination, fiber breakage, etc. Therefore, adoption of a certain composite material system requires thorough understanding of the initiation and propagation of damage until failure in that system under various mechanical loading conditions, which is also the …