Publications by Abdolvahid Movahedirad

A novel fatigue life prediction methodology based on energy dissipation in viscoelastic materials, synergistic effects of stress level, stress ratio, and temperature

Thomas Keller, Lulu Liu, Abdolvahid Movahedirad

This work introduces a new methodology to predict the fatigue life of viscoelastic materials by considering the creep effect on fatigue behavior under the concurrent effects of stress level, stress ratio, and temperature. The model established based on the ...

2024

Experimental investigation of rotational behavior of pseudo-ductile adhesive angle joints exhibiting variable strain rate

Thomas Keller, Ghazaleh Eslami, Abdolvahid Movahedirad

Pseudo-ductile behavior in composite structural frames can be achieved by enabling their beam-column joints to exhibit nonlinear structural response due to progressive damage, by using pseudo-ductile adhesives. This study investigates the static behavior o ...

2023

Viscoelastic adhesive modeling of ductile adhesive-composite joints during cyclic loading

Thomas Keller, Ghazaleh Eslami, Abdolvahid Movahedirad

2022

Load history effects in fibre-reinforced polymer composite materials

Abdolvahid Movahedirad

Today, it is widely accepted that fatigue is one of the most common failure mechanisms in structural components, and pure static failure is rarely observed. Engineering structures are subjected to complex mechanical fatigue loading histories, which cause d ...

EPFL2019

Creep effects on tension-tension fatigue behavior of angle-ply GFRP composite laminates

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Abdolvahid Movahedirad

Angle-ply (±45)2S glass/epoxy composite specimens have been subjected to pure creep and tension-tension constant amplitude fatigue loading interrupted at max by creep intervals lasting for 2 or 48 hours in order to examine the effects of creep loading on ...

2019

Effects of load interruption on the fatigue life of GFRP composites

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Abdolvahid Movahedirad

The effect of cyclic loading interruption on the fatigue behavior of angle-ply (±45)2S glass/epoxy composite laminates was investigated by comparing the obtained results of continuous- and interrupted loading patterns. Continuous fatigue experiments were p ...

2018

Effect of Loading Pattern on Fatigue Behavior of Laminated Composites

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Abdolvahid Movahedirad

The effect of load interruptions on the fatigue behavior of (±45)2s angle-ply glass/epoxy composite laminates was investigated in this work. Constant amplitude fatigue experiments were performed at different stress levels to derive base line fatigue data. ...

MDPI2018

Creep-fatigue interaction in composite materials

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Abdolvahid Movahedirad

A novel phenomenological model taking into account the creep-fatigue interaction in composite materials’ fatigue performance is introduced in this paper. The model is based on the derivation of a master curve by using existing experimental fatigue data fro ...

2016