Proceedings of the American Society for Composites 2010-Twenty-Fifth Technical Conference

FREE-EDGE EFFECTS

• A Four-Decade View on the Pipes-Pagano Problem: Free-Edge Effects in Composite Laminates
• Free Edge Laminate Stresses and Delamination Using Finite Element Analysis—The Early Years
• Free Edge Effects in Laminated Composites: 1976–2006

FIBER-METAL LAMINATES

• Notch Strength of Hybrid Boron/Glass/Aluminum Fiber Metal Laminates
• Damage Characterization of Ti/GFRP Laminates Subjected to Low-Velocity Impact

NATURAL FIBER COMPOSITES

• Thermal and Mechanical Studies of Wood Flour Reinforced Polyurethane Composites
• Mechanical and Thermal Characterization of Modified Jute/Biopol Nanophased Green Composite
• Evaluation of Mechanical Properties in Silk Fiber Reinforced Biodegradable Plastic Composites
• Braid-Trusion of Jute/Polylactic Acid Composites
• In Situ Hybridization of Thermoplastic Composites by Micro-Braiding Technique

FOAM STRUCTURAL MECHANICS

• Flexural Properties of Functionally Gradient Syntactic Foam Sandwich Structures
• High Strain Rate Behavior and Failure Analysis of Nanoclay Reinforced Vinyl Ester Based Syntactic Foams Subjected To Hygrothermal Conditioning
• Visualization of Fracture Behavior of Syntactic Foams Under High Strain Rate Loading
• Strength Prediction of Foam-Core Sandwich Structures with Butt Joints

STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING

• Investigation of Temperature Dependency of Electrical Resistance Changes for Structural Management of Graphite/Polymer Composite
• Health Monitoring of Composite Pi-Joints Using Fiber Optic Sensors
• Self-Sensing Composite Materials: Delamination Detection
• Real-Time Impact Force Identification of CFRP Structures Using Experimental Transfer Matrices
• Unsupervised Damage Detection in CFRP Structures Using Statistical Analysis of Temperature Characteristic of Resistance
• Delamination Detection in CFRP Laminates Using a Built-In Broadband Lamb Wave Propagation System
• Modeling of Fiber Composites During the Cure Process for Piezoelectric Actuation
• Health Monitoring Using Carbon Nanotubes in Adhesively-Bonded Composite-to-Metal Joints
• Effect of Indentation on Electrical Resistance Change of CFRP
• Internal Strain Monitoring of a CFRP Laminate During Low Velocity Impact Test Using Fiber Bragg Grating Sensors

JOINING AND REPAIR

• Birefringence Effect of Embedded FBGs Due to Peel Stress at the Overlap End of Single-Lap Joint
• A Novel Approach to Generation of Adhesive Bonds with Controlled Bond Strength
• Investigation on the Joining of CFRP-to-CFRP and CFRP-to-Aluminum for a Small Aircraft Structural Application
• A Damage Model for the Simulation of Bearing Failure in Bolted Joints of Interlaminar Toughened CFRP Laminates
• Probabilistic Strength Analysis of Pin Joints in CFRP Laminates
• On the Effect of Mechanical Properties of Fasteners on Torsional Stiffness of Space Extenible Mast
• Damage Modeling of Bearing Failure in CFRP Bolted Joints Based on Fiber Compressive Failure Criterion Under Multiaxial Stress States
• The Effect of Joint Configuration on Joint Strength
• Fracture Toughness of the CFRP Adhesive Bonded Joint Under Cryogenic Temperature
• Pull-Out Behavior of Adhesively Bonded Composite Pi-Joints: Damage Modeling & Comparison with Experiments
• Resin to Fiber Ratio—Maximizing Tensile Properties in a Water-Activated, Polyurethane/Carbon Fiber Composite Repair System

LOW VELOCITY IMPACT

• Composite Tiling for Impact Damage Tolerance
• Quasi-Static Investigation of Impactor Bluntness Effects on Curved Stiffened Carbon Epoxy Panels
• An Experimental Study of the Effect of Stitching on Low-Velocity-Impact (LVI) Damage and Compression-After-Impact (CAI) Strength
• Impact-Induced Delamination Suppression in Laminated Composites Using Through-Thickness Stitching
• Numerical Modeling of Impact-Induced Damage in Composite Laminates Under Soft-Body Impact with Interlaminar Damage Zone Using Homogenization Method
• Formation and Relaxation of Facesheet Dent on Indented Foam Core Sandwich Beams
• Effects of Subzero Temperatures, Seawater Immersion and Low Velocity Impact on Flexural Strength, Stiffness and Life of Sandwich Composites
• Influence of Impact Damage on Carbon-Epoxy Stiffener Crippling
• Modification of a Macromechanical Finite-Element Based Model for Impact Analysis of Triaxially Braided Composites

NANO-COMPOSITES

• Phonon Transmission in Carbon Nanotube Structure: Wave Packet Study
• Thermal Conductivity of a Monolayer of Exfoliated Graphite Nanoplatelets Prepared by Liquid-Liquid Interfacial Self-Assembly
• Investigation into Electromagnetic Interference of a Nanocomposite Under Monotonic Tension and Fatigue
• Effect of Compression on Electrical Conductivity of CNT-PMMA Composites
• Combined Microfluidization and Ultrasonication Process for High Throughput and Large-Scale Production of SWCNT Dispersions
• Micromechanical Modeling of Nanoreinforced Composites with Carbon Nanofibers and Interphase
• Simultaneous Raman Scattering and Photoluminescence Spectroscopy for Quantifying the Chemically Induced Defects of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
• Damage Sensing of a Highly Conductive Carbon Nanotube-Polymer Composite Under Cyclic and Impact Loading
• Thermo-Oxidative Degradation in High Temperature Polymer Composites for Advanced Aircraft
• Effects of CNF on Compression and Thermal Responses of E-Glass/Polyester Nanocomposite
• Improved Carbon Fiber Composite Compression Strength and Shear Stiffness Through Matrix Modification with Nanosilica
• Synthesization of CNT on Surface of C/C Composites by Alcohol CVD Method and Its Effect on Coefficient of Friction Between Them
• Cure Monitoring of Nano-Carbon Dispersed Polymers by Fiber Optic Sensors
• Feather Weight Composites: Development of Controlled Free Volume in CNT Reinforced Polymeric Matrix Systems
• Processing Optimization and Characterization of MWCNT Infused Epoxy Nanocomposites Using Three Different Techniques
• Fracture of Layer-By-Layer Nanocomposites
• Effects of Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes on Mode I and Ode II Interlaminar Fracture Toughness of a Hybrid Glass Fiber/MWCNT/Epoxy Composite
• Mechanical Properties Characterization of Neat and Carbon Nanotubes Mixed Carbon Fiber/Epoxy Composites
• Mechanical Response and Finite Element Simulations of Vinyl Ester Nanocomposite Panels Under Shock and Quasi-Static Flexural Loading
• Vibration of Fiber Reinforced Anisotropic Composite Plates with Nanofiber Reinforced Matrices
• Thermo-Mechanical Characterization of Graphene Based Hybrid Nanocomposites

DAMAGE MODELING

• Progressive Damage Modeling of Full-Scale Sandwich Composite Aircraft Fuselage Panels
• Bifurcation Behavior of Delamination Cracks in Composite Laminates Under General Shear Mode Crack Propagation Condition
• Multi-Objective Optimization Design for Composite Stiffened Panel Considering Damage Tolerance
• Effects of Ply Thickness on the Residual Burst Strength of Hoop-Wrapped CFRP Composite Vessels After Out-of-Plane Loading
• The Effect of Through-Thickness Compression on the Tensile Strength of Carbon-Fibre Composites
• An Improved Strain-Energy Based Failure Theory for Composite Laminates
• Failure Behavior of High Strength CFRP Bolted Joints with Cone Washer
• Strength Evaluation of C/C-Composite Screw Joint Structures
• Development of a Benchmark Example for Delamination Fatigue Growth Prediction
• An Analytical Non-Dimensional Model for Mode I Delamination of Z-Pinned Composites
• Accounting for the R-Curve Effects on the Mode I Fatigue Delamination Growth Characterisation of Unidirectional Composites
• A Shear-Torsion-Bending Test for Mixed-Mode I-II-III Delamination Toughness Determination
• Predicting Damage Growth in Z-Pinned Laminated Composite Structures
• Damage Development and Gas Leakage in CFRP Angle-Ply Laminates
• Under Biaxial Loadings
• Modeling Geometry and Progressive Failure of Material Interfaces in Plain Weave Composites

DYNAMICS

• Vibration and Dynamic Response of Hybrid Wind Turbine Blades
• Vibrations Studies of Laminated Composite Cylindrical Shells of Arbitrary Boundaries
• Dynamics of Bistable Unsymmetric Fiber-Reinforced Composite Laminates
• Accurate Modeling and Vibrations Studies of Laminated Composite Beams

THERMAL ENHANCEMENT

• Mechanical Properties of Microscale Graphitic Carbon Foam Ligaments and Nodes Introduction
• Improvement of Thermal Conductivity of Epoxy Resin for the Manufacturing of Thick Composites

BIO-INSPIRED STRUCTURES

• Bio-Inspired Research for Manufacturing Purposes
• Manufacturing of Engineering Biologically Inspired Flapping Wings

OFFICE OF NAVAL RESEARCH REVIEW

• Damage Sensing in Fiber Composites Using Uniformly and Non-Uniformly Dispersed Carbon Nanotubes
• Poisson’s Ratio of Hollow Particle Filled Composites
• Effect of Particle Size on the Strength of Nanocomposites
• Damage Growth Determination via Evolving Stress Fields in Composite Materials
• Coupled Effect of Sea Water and Low Temperature on Polymeric Composites
• Sea Water and Temperature Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Single Carbon Fibers
• Effect of UV Radiation on Mechanical and Thermal Properties of
• Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites
• Low Velocity Impact Analysis of Naval Composites
• Impact Testing of Composites with Enhanced Measurements

ATOMISTIC/MOLECULAR MODELING

• Molecular Modeling of Cross-Linked Epoxy Polymers
• Atom Scale Simulation of the Electrical Resistance of a Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube
• Characterizing Interfacial Properties and Elastic Constants Using Molecular Dyamics Simulation of Cross-Linked Graphene-Epoxy Nanocomposites

PROCESSING

• Field Induced Alignment of Liquid Crystalline Polymers for Improved Interlaminar Properties of Composite Laminates
• Fabrication of Sandwich Panels by the VARTM Process
• Moisture and Pressure Effects on Void Formation in Prepreg Processed Composites
• Process Monitoring for Large-Scale Composite Structures by Optical-Fiber-Based Distributed Sensing System

HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT

• High Velocity Ice Impact Damage Resistance Comparison of Unidirectional and Woven Carbon/Epoxy Composite Panels
• Effect of Impact Speed on High-Speed Impact Damage in CFRP Unidirectional and Cross-Ply Laminates
• Ballistic Impact Tolerance of Filament-Wound Composite Tubes with Rigid and Flexible Matrix Materials
• Penetration Study of Glass Fiber Reinforced Metal Composite Plates
• Energy Loss Due to Transverse Plastic Deformation of Fibers in Textile Fabric Impact Processes
• Modeling the Effects of Structural Ribs in Kevlar Laminates for Personnel Protection

MECHANICS

• A Test Specimen for Composite Laminates with Grooves Subjected to Out-of-Plane Contact Loading
• Hygrothermal Effects on the Mechanical Properties of Glass Fibre-Epoxy Composite Material
• Multi-Theory FEM Architecture for the Generation of Advanced Mixed Shear Deformation Theories Based on the Generalized Unified Formulation for Composite Structures
• The Influence of Fiber Packaging on the Homogenized Response of Cured Fiber Composites
• Evaluation of Fiber-Matrix Debond Induced Failure Initiation Under Transverse Loading in Multi-Fiber Composites
• Interfacial Failure Criterion of a Glass Fiber/Epoxy Composite
• A Unified Analysis of Stiffener Reinforced Composite Beams
• Fundamental Frequencies of Thin-Walled Elliptical Composite Cylinders
• Comparison of Optimal Hygrothermally Stable Laminates with Extension-Twist Coupling Using Sequential Quadratic Programming and Ant Colony Optimization

TEXTILES

• Predicting Mechanical Properties of 2D Triaxially Braided Textile Composites Based on Microstructure Properties
• Meso-Scale Modeling of Uniaxial Tensile Tests for Single Layer Triaxially Braided Composites
• Damage Progression in Stitched Composites Containing Circular Hole Under Fatigue Loads
• Modeling Meso Structure of Triaxial Braided Composite

ENERGY ABSORPTION

• Compressive Failure of Unidirectional CFRP Plate Under Progressive Crushing
• Compression Response of 3DWoven Composites Subjected to High Loading Rates

MULTIFUNCTIONAL MATERIALS

• Mechanical Characterization of Bucky Gel Morphing Composite
• Design and Analysis of Nano-Composite Termites

SANDWICH STRUCTURES

• Evaluation of Composite Sandwich Structures Containing Core Thickness Mismatches

HIGH TEMPERATURE POLYMER COMPOSITES

• Elastic Interaction of Interfacial Spherical-Cap Cracks in Syntactic Foams
• Decoupled Subdomain Strategy for Prediction of Through-Thickness Oxidation of Woven Composites

FATIGUE

• Stiffness and Fatigue Behavior of Composite Elliptic Springs
• Implementing a Finite Element Module for Fatigue Damage Modeling in Fiber Reinforced Composite Materials
• A Numerical Fatigue Model for Application to Tidal Turbines

Author Index