Publications by Aida Cameselle Molares

Two-dimensional crack growth in FRP laminates and sandwich panels

Fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composite materials are currently being selected for the design of lightweight and efficient structural members in a wide number of engineering applications. Sandwich panels with glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) face she ...

EPFL2019

Two-dimensional quasi-static debonding in GFRP/balsa sandwich panels

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

The two-dimensional (2D) debonding behavior of GFRP/balsa sandwich panels presenting embedded circular disbonds at the face sheet/core interface was experimentally investigated. The bottom of the panels was fixed and out-of-plane quasi-static tensile loads ...

2019

Numerically-based method for fracture characterization of Mode I-dominated two-dimensional delamination in FRP laminates

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

A new numerically-based method suitable for determining the total strain energy release rate (SERA) involved in two-dimensional (2D) Mode I-dominated delamination under opening loads in FRP laminates is presented. The method is based on the mutual dependen ...

2019

Two-dimensional fatigue debonding in GFRP/balsa sandwich panels

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

An experimental investigation of the two-dimensional (2D) debonding behavior of GFRP/balsa sandwich panels with embedded circular disbonds at the face sheet/core interface subjected to out-of-plane fatigue loads was conducted. The constant amplitude fatigu ...

2019

Numerical simulation of two-dimensional in-plane crack propagation in FRP laminates

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

A numerical investigation was carried out in order to simulate experimental results previously obtained concerning two-dimensional (2D) in-plane crack propagation in laminated glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) plates. The laminated plates were designed ...

2018

Numerical simulation of two-dimensional crack propagation

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

A numerical investigation was carried out to simulate the experimental results previously obtained concerning two-dimensional in-plane crack propagation in laminated glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) plates. The plates were designed with an embedded ci ...

2018

Experimental investigation of two-dimensional delamination in GFRP laminates

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

The 2D delamination behavior of composite laminates under quasi-static out-of-plane opening loading has been experimentally investigated. A circular embedded pre-crack was introduced in the center and at the midplane of the laminates. To investigate the ef ...

2018

Novel experimental design for two-dimensional delamination in FRP laminates

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

The two-dimensional (2D) delamination behavior of composite laminates under quasi-static out-of-plane opening loads has been experimentally investigated. A novel design and experimental set-up for fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) laminated plates with a circ ...

2018

Two-dimensional crack propagation in GFRP laminates: Experimental investigation

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

2018

2D quasi-static delamination in GFRP laminates: numerical investigation

Thomas Keller, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Aida Cameselle Molares

EPFL - CCLab Composite Construction Laboratory2018