Heterogeneity of discontinuous carbon fibre composites: damage initiation captured by Digital Image Correlation

This paper aims to identify architectural features which lead to damage initiation and failure in discontinuous carbon fibre composites formed from randomly orientated bundles. A novel multi-camera digital image correlation system was used to simultaneously view strain fields from opposing surfaces...

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Main Authors: Johanson, K., Harper, L.T., Johnson, Michael S., Warrior, N.A.
Format: Article
Published: Elsevier 2015
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/44612/