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The effect of voids on matrix cracking in composite laminates as revealed by combined computations at the micro- and meso-scales by Mehdikhani, Mahoor, Petrov, Nikolay A., Straumit, Ilya, Melro, António R., Lomov, Stepan V., Gorbatikh, Larissa

“…Voids are an important type of manufacturing defects in fiber-reinforced composites. Matrix cracking is sensitive to the presence of voids. Although this…”
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Dynamic inter-fibre failure of unidirectional composite laminates with through-thickness reinforcement by Cui, Hao, Yasaee, Mehdi, Melro, António R.

“…Unidirectional composite laminates reinforced in the thickness direction with Z-pins are tested in tension and compression with different off-axis angles at…”
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Inter-fibre failure of through-thickness reinforced laminates in combined transverse compression and shear load by Cui, Hao, Melro, António R., Yasaee, Mehdi

“…Extensive studies have been reported on the improvement of through-thickness reinforcement to inter-laminar performance of composite laminates; current…”
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High-fidelity micro-scale modeling of the thermo-visco-plastic behavior of carbon fiber polymer matrix composites by Bai, Xiaoming, Bessa, Miguel A., Melro, António R., Camanho, Pedro P., Guo, Licheng, Liu, Wing K.

“…An experimentally validated micro-scale analysis of the visco-thermo-mechanical behavior of polymer matrix composites under different loads is proposed. A new…”
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An energy-equivalent bridging map formulation for modelling delamination in through-thickness reinforced composite laminates by Melro, António R., Serra, Joël, Allegri, Giuliano, Hallett, Stephen R.

“…A new multi-scale framework to numerically model the bridging effect in through-thickness reinforced (TTR) composite laminates with z-pins is presented. The…”
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Mechanics of hybrid polymer composites: analytical and computational study by Tavares, Rodrigo P., Melro, António R., Bessa, Miguel A., Turon, Albert, Liu, Wing K., Camanho, Pedro P.

“…Three different models with increased complexity to study the effects of hybridization on the tensile failure of hybrid composites are proposed. The first…”
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Numerical analysis of resin-rich areas and their effects on failure initiation of composites by Ghayoor, Hossein, Marsden, Catharine C., Hoa, Suong V., Melro, António R.

“…Resin-rich areas in composite laminates can occur as inter-laminar resin ‘layers’ between plies or as intra-laminar resin ‘pockets’ within a single layer. In…”
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On the importance of nesting considerations for accurate computational damage modelling in 2D woven composite materials by Varandas, Luís F., Catalanotti, Giuseppe, Melro, António R., Falzon, Brian G.

“…[Display omitted] •The progressive damage of a two-dimensional woven composite material was studied.•Realistic tows were obtained by submitting the preforms to…”
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Corrigendum to “High-fidelity micro-scale modeling of the thermo-visco-plastic behavior of carbon fiber polymer matrix composites” [Compos Struct 134 (2015) 132–141] by Bai, Xiaoming, Bessa, Miguel A., Melro, António R., Camanho, Pedro P., Guo, Licheng, Liu, Wing Kam

“…The authors would like to inform that one of the modifications proposed in the article “High-fidelity micro-scale modeling of the thermo-visco-plastic behavior…”
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Efficient sublaminate-scale impact damage modelling with higher-order elements in explicit integration by Selvaraj, Jagan, Kawashita, Luiz F., Melro, Antonio R., Hallett, Stephen R.

“…Damage modelling in composite structures with ply-level discretisation is computationally expensive for analysing large structures. In such cases…”
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Meso-scale progressive damage simulation of textile composites using mesh superposition by Tabatabaei, Sahand, Bedogni, Enrico, Melro, Antonio R., Ivanov, Dmitry S., Lomov, Stepan V.

“…The paper demonstrates that the mesh superposition (MSP) based finite element (FE) models of a textile composite unit cell can be used for adequate prediction…”
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