Dongfeng Cao

The Effect of Silicone Modification on the Thermo-Oxidative Degradation and Mechanical Property Retention of CFRP Laminates

The mechanical properties of CFRP laminates degrade significantly in extreme thermal environments above the onset temperature of thermo-oxidative degradation of the matrix. This study investigates the thermo-oxidative damage evolution and mechanical degradation mechanisms of CFRP...

Failure analysis of marine composite sandwich beams with syntactic foam cores under bending loads

In this work, a progressive failure analysis framework is proposed to investigate the bending failure mechanisms of composite sandwich beams with syntactic foam cores. The numerical framework incorporates the cohesive zone model to simulate interface debonding and adopts Hashin's...