Publications by Luis Pablo Canal Casado

On the validity of the J-integral as a measure of the transverse intralaminar fracture energy of glass fiber-reinforced polyurethanes with nonlinear material behavior

2018

On the mechanical characteristics of a self-setting calcium phosphate cement

John Botsis, Luis Pablo Canal Casado, Dimitrios Karalekas, Alexios Bimis

Objective: To perform a mechanical characterization of a self-setting calcium phosphate cement in function of the immersion time in Ringer solution. Materials and methods: Specimens of self-setting calcium phosphate cement were prepared from pure alpha-TCP ...

Elsevier2017

A multi-scale based cohesive zone model for the analysis of thickness scaling effect in fiber bridging

John Botsis, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

A cohesive zone model (CZM) is proposed to assess the thickness scaling effect associated with fiber bridging during fracture. The CZM was developed through a multi-scale simulation approach and utilizes an embedded cell model of the Double Cantilever Beam ...

Elsevier2017

Large scale fiber bridging in mode I intralaminar fracture. An embedded cell approach

John Botsis, Georgios Pappas, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

Fiber reinforced composites can develop large scale bridging upon mode I fracture. This toughening mechanism depends on the constituents and the geometry of the specimen, and is especially important in unidirectional laminates when fracture is parallel to ...

Elsevier2016

Characterization of intralaminar mode I fracture of AS4/PPS composite using inverse identification and micromechanics

John Botsis, Georgios Pappas, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

A detailed experimental-numerical study of large scale bridging during intralaminar fracture of AS4/PPS uniaxial thermoplastic composite is reported. Identification of bridging tractions is carried out using: (a) An inverse identification method based on q ...

Elsevier2016

Magneto-mechanical actuation of ferromagnetic shape memory alloy/epoxy composites

Véronique Michaud, Susanne Glock, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

Ferromagnetic shape memory alloys (MSMA) exhibit magnetic field- and stress-induced twinning when processed into single crystals, but are brittle and difficult to shape. Embedding slender single crystalline MSMA elements into a polymer matrix can thus prov ...

2015

An experimental-numerical investigation of hydrothermal response in adhesively bonded composite structures

John Botsis, Véronique Michaud, Hans Georg Limberger, Roohollah Sarfaraz Khabbaz, Georgios Violakis, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

Water absorption and thermal response of adhesive composite joints were investigated by measurements and numerical simulations. Water diffusivity, saturation, swelling, and thermal expansion of the constituent materials and the joint were obtained from gra ...

Elsevier2015

Process-induced strains in RTM processing of polyurethane/carbon composites

Véronique Michaud, Luis Pablo Canal Casado, Michael Hausmann, Maria Benavente Miana

The development of residual strains and stresses is critical to manufacture composite structures with the required dimensional stability and mechanical performance. This work uses Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) sensors to monitor strain build-up in carbon fiber ...

Elsevier2015

Novel experimental procedure and determination of full displacement fields of delaminating composite layer interfaces for evaluation of the mode II cohesive law

Luis Pablo Canal Casado

A novel mode II fracture test setup based on a simple tensile loading scenario with a discontinuous ply specimen is proposed in the paper as the first step towards determination of the cohesive law of composite layer interfaces. Key outputs of the procedur ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2015

Micro-scale modeling of water diffusion in adhesive composite joints

Véronique Michaud, Luis Pablo Canal Casado

Water diffusion into composite adhesive joints was experimentally studied by means of gravimetric measurements in bond specimens. The main parameters controlling the diffusion in the bond components were obtained from water uptake experiments carried out i ...

Elsevier2014