After four successful workshops on defining strangth and measuring tensile, compression and shear strength, we are now organising out 5th workshop on Thursday 20th October 2022 at 2pm GMT.

This workshop focuses on measuring transverse strength of UD plies in static tension or compression.

For practical reasons, these tests are often performed on multidirectional laminates. Research that sheds lighr on how other plies influence transverse strangth is therefore also welcome, but the focus should be on the basic strangth rather than laminate behaviour.

• Topic Measuring transverse strength of UD plies in static tension or compression
• Date 20th October, 2022
• Time 2pm-5pm GMT
• Fee & audience Free and open to all

Register for a place here.

 

Agenda and Speakers.

The event will be held on Zoom. We have allowed three hours so we are not constrained by time, but may not use all of this, depending on the number of participants.

• 02.00 PM – Meeting introduction – Federico Paris
• 02.05 PM – Topic presentation - Michael Wisnom, Yentl Swolfs and Federico Paris
• 02.20 PM – 5-minute presentations
• 03:00 PM – Panel member questions and comments (live)
• 03:20 PM – Break
• 03:30 PM – Open discussion (Q&A or raising hands)
• 03:40 PM – Conclusions, suggestions for next steps and topics for next workshops
• 05.00 PM – End of meeting

5-minute presentations

• New test approach to determine the transverse tensile strength of CFRP with regard to the size effect — Bodo Fiedler, Hamburg University of Technology
• Transverse failure initiation – a dilatational stress controlled failure event in the glassy polymer matrix — Leif Asp, Chalmers University of Technology
• The importance of micromechanics in the understanding of transverse strength concept in composites — Elena Correa, University of Seville
• The role of local stress triaxiality in determining the transverse tensile strength of UD composites — Rames Talreja, Texas A&M
• Cavitation on a thermoplastic matrix for a UD composite subject to transverse compression (Brazilian test) — Lucien Laiarinandrasana, Mines Paris PSL