Print Email Facebook Twitter The effect of the throughthe-thickness compressive stress on mode II interlaminar fracture toughness Title The effect of the throughthe-thickness compressive stress on mode II interlaminar fracture toughness Author Catalanotti, G. (Queen's University Belfast) Scalici, T. (Università degli Studi di Palermo) Pitarresi, G. (Università degli Studi di Palermo) van der Meer, F.P. (TU Delft Applied Mechanics) Date 2017 Abstract The effect of through-thethickness compressive stress on the mode II interlaminar fracture toughness is investigated experimentally and replicated numerically. It is shown that the mode II interlaminar fracture toughness increases with the applied compressive through-the-thickness stress. A good agreement between numerical predictions and experiments is found. To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:dc2e961c-e1e7-4dd7-9f50-535cb194c6b7 Source 21th International Conference on Composite Materials: Xi’an, 20-25th August 2017 Event 21th International Conference on Composite Materials, 2017-08-20 → 2017-08-25, Xi’an, China Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type conference paper Rights © 2017 G. Catalanotti, T. Scalici, G. Pitarresi, F.P. van der Meer Files PDF 4383.pdf 527.81 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:dc2e961c-e1e7-4dd7-9f50-535cb194c6b7/datastream/OBJ/view