EC cm 11llth European Conferenceon Composite Materials

From nano'Scale interactionstpj engineering structures

ESCM

BOOKOF ABSTRACTS

Vol. I/I I

CHAIRMAN

COSTAS GALIOTIS

May 31 -June 3, 2004Rhodes, Greece

TABLE OF CONTENTS

MONDAY

PLENARY LECTURE by:Dr. Thevenin Roland, "Composite opportunities and limits"

SMART COMPOSITES

INVITED SPEAKER: G.H. Abumeri and Dr. C. Chamis P a g e

[C033] Quantification of Uncertainties in the Performances of Smart Com-posite Structures P.N 30

[B130] Free-Vibration of Adaptive Sandwich Composite Beams with Pie-zoelectric Actuators and Sensors using Coupled Higher-Order LayerwiseMechanics 32Theofanis S. Plagianakos and Dimitris A. Saravanos

[B139] Elasticity Solution of Thick Laminated Cylindrical Panel with Pie-zoelectric Layer under Dynamic Loading 34M. Shakeri, A. Daneshmehr and A. Alibeiglou

[B082] Active Vibration Control of Reinforced and non-Reinforced Light-weight Structures 35W. Hufenbach,A- Darpe, A. Langkamp, W. Cebula

[C046] Performances Prediction for a Structure with Piezoelectric Com-posite Inserts 36Enab. T., Lagache M., Pastor J., Vigier Y.

[B140] Heat Sink with Adaptive Thermal Properties 38Jean-Francois Silvain, Jean-Eric Barbier, Pierre-Marie Geffroy,

Philippe Despagne

[B087] A Nano-Micro-Composite Sensor for the Measurement of FlowShear Stress 40P.Panopoulos, C. Lekakou and N.Toy

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INVITED SPEAKER: Dr. F. Butera:Composites and Smart Materials: A Synergic Approach for Tomorrow'sVehicles

[C060] Creep behavior of PP based composites for the automotive industry 43A. Greco, C. Musardo and A. Maffezzoli

fC140] Regarding the results of ultimate strength tests of GRP consisting 46the stitched multilayer angle laminas used as a boatbuilding materialAsst. Prof. Dr. Gokdeniz Neser

[C202] Development of Composite Anisogrid Spacecraft Attach Fitting 47A.F.Razin and V.V.Vasiliev

[C159] Influence of a thermal shield on the damage tolerance for compos-ite structures of launchers 48S. Petit, C. Bouvet, A. Bergerot, J.J. Barrau

[C018] Preliminary Design and Concepts of a New Full Composite UAV 50A.F. Accardo, P. Basso

[C165] HELIPLAT: Manufacturing and structural Design of Solar Pow-ered UAV Scaled Prototype 52G. Romeo, G. Frulla, E. Cestino, G Corsino

FRACTURE AND FAILURE IN COMPOSITES

[A006] Fracture surfaces of CFRP laminates statically loaded at the centre 55G. Caprino and V. Lopresto

[B078] Intricacies in the Prediction of Intra laminar Fracture Toughness ofMultilayered Composites 57R.Ramesh Kumar and G.Venkateswara Rao

[B108] Process-induced stresses and their influence upon some mechani-cal properties of carbon/epoxy laminates. Part 2: Study by acoustic emis-sion 58K. E. Tarsha Kurdi & Ph. Olivier

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[C191] Cracking of composite beams. Numerical Evaluation 59E.E. Theotokoglou

[B049] Impact of thick cfrp panels: near free edge impact 60Charles Breen, Felicity Guild and Martyn Pavier

[C080] A criterion based on stress and energy for the onset of transversecracking 62C. Huchette, N. Carrere, D. Leveque

[A052] Mode II fracture toughness of glass/epoxy multidirectional lami-nates 64A.B. Pereira, A. B. de Morais, A. T. Marques, P. T. de Castro

[C164] Effect of void content on the fracture performance of long glassfiber reinforced polypropylene 66Victor Iliev Rizov

[C209] Investigation into the failure of open and filled holes in CFRP lam-inates under biaxial loading conditions 68C. Williamson, J. Cook and P. Hopgood

[B062] Fibre orientation structures and their effect on the crack resistanceof an injection moulded transverse ribbed plate 70P.J.Hine, R.A.Duckett, P.Caton-Rose and P.D.Coates

[B053] Rupture prediction of woven ply laminated plate with an open hole 72Cyril Bordreuil and Christian Hochard

[B063] Failure Criteria for Non-Metallic Materials - Part I: Fibre Rein-forced Plastics 74Clemens Kaiser, Erik Kuhnel, Andreas Obst

[A017] Materials and processing effects on stiffener pull-off strength ofstiffened panel 76A. Y. L. Leong & P. J. Hogg

NANOCOMPOSITES

[C034] Modeling and Characterization of Carbon Nanotubes and their Com-posites ^9Erik T. Thostenson, Chunyu Li and Tsu-Wei Chou

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[B023] Dynamics in intercalated polymer-clay nanocomposites 81K. Chrissopoulou, K. Karatasos, S. H. Anastasiadis, E. P. Giannelis,B. Frick

[B174] Fabrication of Carbon Nanotue-TiC Nanocomposites by Spark Plas-ma Sintering 83P. Gu, J.H. Zhao, G. Liu, J. Chen

[A048] Evaluation of the potential of carbon nanotubes for a reinforcementof an epoxy matrix 85Florian H. Gojny, Bodo Fiedler, Karl Schulte

[C121] Fatigue failure mechanisms of single-walled carbon nanotube ropes 87Y. Ren, T. Xiao, Y.Q. Fu, F. Li, H. M. Cheng, and K. Liao

[C078] Augmentation of fracture toughness of epoxy using nanoparticles 89Liu W., Hoa S.V. and Pugh M.

[C086] Organic-inorganic hybrid nanoparticles as modifiers for polymercomposite matrices 90D.AJesson, A.Arkhireeva, J.N.Hay, P.A.Smith and J.F.Watts

[C020] Photoluminescence Studies on Hybrid Organic/Inorganic Nanocom-posite Gels 92Vlasoula Bekiari

[C117] Polymer Matrix Nanocomposites Exhibiting Magnetic Properties 94MLeonowicz, M. Lawecka, A. Slawska-Waniewska, I. Dzhardimalieva,A.S.Rozenberg and A.D.Pomogailo

COMPOSITES, ENVIROMENT AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

[A035] Temperature and strain rate dependant mechanical behaviour of allP-P composites. Comparison with GMT and NMT 97N.-M. Barkoula, C. T. Reynolds, B. Alcock, N.-O. Cabrera, L. E. Govaertand T. Peijs

[B031] Thermal Analysis of Polymer Resin Matrix Reinforced with E-glassFibres Degradated in Neutral Environments 99Ma D. Salvador, V. Amigo, O. Sahuquillo, C. Ma Antolinos, F. Segovia,A. Vicente, C.Sanz

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Page[B151] Epoxy composites hardened by phosphorus carbon fibers.Influence of thermal cycling on thermal properties. 101L.E.Evseeva, S.A.Tanaeva, V.I.Dubkova and O.I.Mayevskaya

[Clll] Experimental evidence of coupling between matrix cracking andoxidation during thermal ageing of C/epoxy laminates 103M.C. Lafarie-Frenot, Sandrine Rouguie, Veronique Bellenger

[A002] Internal Stresses Induced by Cyclical Environmental Conditions inLaminated Composite Plates 105M. Gigliotti, F. Jacquemin and A. Vautrin

[B105] The effect of gamma and electron beam radiation on the mechani-cal properties of thermosetting polymer and their composites 107Y. Ikeo, A. Hirayama, S. Matsuda, H. Kishi and A. Murakami

[B132] Weathering effects on the impact, bulk and surface properties ofpolyphenylene sulphide (PPS) composites 109T. Sinmazcelik, B.H. Ates, T. Yilmaz

[C148] Impact resistance modification of PEI reinforced with carbon fibertextile after mechanical, higrothermal, and higrothermal-mechanical expo-sure 112A. Fernandez-Cantelia, A. Argiiellesa, J. Vinab, J. F. Kalthoffc

AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING OF COMPOSITES

[B090] Hybrid thermoplastic composite beam structures integrating UDtows, stamped fabrics, and injection/compression moulding 115M.D. Wakeman, P. Beyeler, E. Eble, P.O. Hagstrand, T. Hermann, J-A.EManson

[A058] The use of Nanomagnetic Fluids to enhance the Production of Com-posite Parts Components made by RTM 117Nicolai Crainic, Doina Bica, Ladislau Vekas, Antonio Torres Marques, PauloJorge Novoa

[A038] Development of High-Performance Textile Reinforcements basedon Flax Fibres 118Saharman Gea, Stergios Goutianos, Torbjorn Eng, Mikael Skrifvars andTon Peijs

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[A069] Liquid moulding of textile reinforced thermoplastics 120Hilde Parton and Ignaas Verpoest

[B027] Flow Characterisation for Partially Impregnated Prepregs 122Mike Clifford and Andrew Long

[C109] Similarity Relations of Process Variables in Resin Flow of RTMProcess 124Moon-Kwang Um, Joon-Hyung Byun and Isaac M. Daniel

[B015] Mathematical modelling of the pultrusion process of polyester-glassfibre composites 126L.Calabrese, A.Valenza

[B028] Simulation of Viscous Textile Composite Sheet Forming based on aUnit Cell Energy Model 128P. Harrison, W.R. Yu, A.C. Long and M.J. Clifford

[C012] Numerical simulation and Experimental characterization of RIFTprocess 130V. Antonucci, M.Durante, M.Giordano, L.Nicolais, C. Vitiello

CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES

[B173] Environmental Degradation of a Continuous Oxide Fibre-Reinfor-ced Oxide Matrix Composite 133N. Ludford, J. A. Yeomans, P. A. Smith

[A022] Assessment of Crack Shielding in Ceramic Matrix Composites inthe Presence of Large Scale Effects 135Konstantinos G. Dassios, Vassilis Kostopoulos

[C150] Interfacial Properties of a Sapphire Fiber / Alumina Matrix Com-posite at Elevated Temperature 137D. Le Pagne, D. J. Osborne, H. Ghonem, R. Warren

[C058] Processing, properties, and performance of polysiloxane-derivedceramic matrix in heat resistant composites reinforced with R-glass or fineceramic fibres 139M. Cerny, P. Glogar, P. Hron, Z. Sucharda, B. Bednarova, S. Hytychova

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[C066] Influence of curing conditions of polysiloxane ceramic precursorson mechanicarproperties of ceramic matrix composites 141Teresa Gumula, Stanislaw Blazewicz

[C189] Microstructure and mechanical properties of ceramic matrix com-posites (CMCs) from polysiloxane and inert / active fillers 143H. Deniz Akkas, M. Lutfi Ovecoglu, MetinTanoglu

MODELLING

[A068] Micro - Macro structural analysis of textile composite partsStepan V. Lomov, Bjorn Van Den Broucke, Ferruh Tiimer, Ignaas Verpoest, 146Laurent Dufort, Patric de Luca

[B149] A stochastic approach to the fibre micro-buckling problem in lay-ered composites with interfacial defects 148C. Soutis, M. Papadrakakisb, G. Stefanoub

[C128] Relationship between the micro- and mesomechanics of laminatesunder plane and out-of-plane macro loading 150P. Ladeveze, D. Marsal, G. Lubineau

[A046] Modelling of the initial failure of CFRP structures by partial discre-tisation: a micro / macro-mechanical approach of first ply failure 152Bodo Fiedler, Stefan Hoist, Thomas Hobbiebrunken, Masaki Hojo,Karl Schulte and Shojiro Ochiai

[C115] A multiscale progressive failure criterion for composite materials 154Laurin F , Carrere N , Leroy F-H , Maire J-F , Perreux D

[B035] An Automated Combined Static-Dynamic Procedure for CapturingMode-Switching in Postbuckling Structures 156Brian G. Falzon and Marco Cerini

[B006] Mechanical behaviour predictions of nonlinear viscoelastic com-posite materials by a homogenisation of random mixtures approach 158Martin Levesque, Katell Derrien, Didier Baptiste and Michae D. Gilchrist

[B043] Experimental validation of composite material stucture optimisa-tion by genetic algorithm 160A. Faye , B. Paluch , M. Grediac

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[B096] Optimization of composite patches with a genetic algorithm 162Jean-Denis Mathias, Xavier Balandraud , Michel Grediac

[C043] Atomistic Modeling of Composite Interfaces 164M. Denga, V.B.C. Tana and T.E. Taya

[B098] Effects of Variable Clearance in Multi-Bolt Composite Joints onLoad Distribution and Quasi-Static Strength 166M.A. McCarthy, V.P. Lawlor, W.F. Stanley

[B137] Optimal stacking sequence of laminated cylindrical panel usinggenetic algorithm 168

M. Shakeri, A. Alibeiglou and A.H. Goodarzi

METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES

[C169] Propagation of a matrix bridged crack in a SiC/Ti composite: ex-periments and modelling 171D. Alba-Sanchez, N. Carrere, S. Kruch and J.-L. Chaboche

[C011] Properties and Fracture Analysis of Diffusion Bonded TiC-Particu-late Reinforced Ti-6A1-4V Titanium Matrix Composite 173Antonio A. M. da Silva, Jorge F. dos Santos and Telmo R. Strohaecker

[C035] Fatigue Crack Resistance of 6061 and 7005 Aluminum Alloy -A12O3 Particulate Composites 175L. Collini, A. Pirondi, G. Nicoletto

[C038] Microstructure and Wear Behaviour of Squeeze Cast 7075 A1-A12O3particle composites 177Daoud, M Abou El-Khair, and A.N. Abdel-Azim

[C167] The effect of the equal channel angular pressing on the particledistribution and fracture properties of metal matrix composites 179I. Sabirova, O. Kolednika, R. Z. Valievb, R. Pippana

[C158] Analysis of the Thermo-mechanical Fatigue Behaviour of SiC-fi-bre reinforced Titanium Alloy (SCS-6/Ti-6242) 181P.W.M. Peters, J. Hemptenmacher, B. Gunther, D. Bettge, P. Portella

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[B034] On the Precipitation-Hardening Behaviour of Ceramic ReinforcedAA6061 Composites 183N. Martinez, M.D. Salvador, D. Busquets and V. Amigo

[C026] Reinforcement influence on precipitation phenomena in Ti3Al in-termetallic reinforced aluminium matrix composites 185David Busquets-Mataix, Vicente Amigo, Maria Dolores Salvador,Giuseppe Riontino

NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING OF COMPOSITES

[B014] M.Acoustic emission monitoring of Block Loading Interaction Dam-age Accumulation During Fatigue of CFRP Composites 189Bourchak, I. Farrow and I. Bond

[B109] "Relation Comparison Methodologies of the Primary and Second-ary Frequency Components of Acoustic Events Obtained from Thermo-plastic Composite Laminates under Tensile Stress 190N. Papadakis, N. Reynolds, C.Ramirez-Jimenez and M. Pharaoh

[Bil l] A Methodology for the Identification of Tensile Failure Mode Typesin Thermoplastic Composite Laminates by Means of Acoustic EmissionMonitoring • 192C.Ramirez-Jimenez, M.Pharaoh, N. Papadakis and N. Reynolds

[A021] A New Approach of Anisotropic Damage Modeling by the Appli-cation of Pattern Recognition Methodologies in NDT Data 194Y. Z. Pappas and V. Kostopoulos

[C064] Simulation of Acoustic Emission Sources in Composite Plates 196N. Madjoudj-Guessasma, S. Mechraoui, A. Laksimi and S. Benmedakhene

[B113] A. Delamintaion Detection in Thick Composite Laminates UsingGuided Ultrasonic Waves 198E. Antoniou, T.T Assimakopoulou and T.P. Philippidis

[C092] Coherent Stoneley-Wave Scattering by a Composite-Like Interface 200J. Kapelewski and B. Lila

[B146] Application of a Lamp Wave Technique for the Non-DestructiveInspection of Composite Structures 202K. Diamanti, J.M. Hodgkinson and C. Soutis

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FATIQUE OF COMPOSITES Page

[B120] Fatigue life prediction of composite laminates 205M. Quaresimin, M. Ricotta, L.Susmel

[B080] Failure Behaviour of Textile Reinforced Composites under DynamicLoading 207W. Hufenbach, M. Gude, A. Langkamp, M. Andrich

[C037] Fatigue Characteristics of Hybrid Composites with Non-WovenCarbon Tissue 209M. Danzuka, Y. Aono, H. Noguchi, S.-H. Lee, S.-.Cheong

[B099] Effects of Variable Clearance in Multi-Bolt Composite Joints onFatigue Life 211V.P. Lawlor, M.A. McCarthy, W.F. Stanley

[B112] Residual strength after fatigue in composite materials: a criticalassessment 213V. A. Passipoularidis, T. P. Philippidis

[A007] Simulating Damage and Permanent Strain in Fibre-reinforced Com-posites under In-plane Fatigue Loading 215W. Van Paepegem and J. Degrieck

[C104] Parametric investigation of fatigue life prediction methodology 217A.P. Vassilopoulos

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TUESDAY

PLENARY LECTURE by:

Prof. Em. Giannelis, "Polymer nanocomposites, Novel Systems:Is smaller Better"

NANOCOMPOSITES

INVITED SPEAKER: Prof J.F. GerardRoutes for Processing Nanocomposites: From the Introduction of Inorgan-icNanofillers or Hybrid Organic-Inorganic Nanoclusters to Sol-Gel Chem-istry. A Review

Page[B160] Recent advances m the meohan*cs of carbon nanotubes and theircomposites 219Asa Barber, E. Wiesel, H. Daniel Wagner

[B181] Spectroscopic and Mechanical Characterization of Isotactic andSyndiotactic Polypropylene Nanocomposite 221S. Bollas, A. Korakianiti, G. Kandilioti and V.G. Gregoriou

[B024] Polyolefin/Silicate Nanocomposites 223I. Altintzi, K. Chrissopoulou, S. H. Anastasiadis, M. Pitsikalis,N. Hadjichristidis, N. Theopbi-lou, E. P. Giannei'is

[C149] Physical Properties of Carbon Nanotube/Polypropylene Compounds 225Naoyuki Oya, Kazuaki Nishiyabu, Takashi Yanagisawa, and Shunji Higaki

[C221] Microstructural Characterisations and Mechanical Properties ofCompatibilized Polyamide 6/Polypropylene/Organoclay Nanocomposites 227W.S. Chow, Z.A. Mohd Ishak and J. Karger-Kocsis

[A036] Processing of Carbon Nanotube Composites using Latex Technology 229P. Ciselli, O. Regev, C. Koning and T. Peijs

[C170] Fine-tuning the properties of poly(ether ether ketone)/poly(etherimide) blends by the addition of carbon nanofibres 231J.K.W. Sandier, A. H. Windle, M.S.P. Shaffer, P. Werner, V. Altstadt

[C055] Preparation and Properties of Cr2N-A12O3 NanocmpositesLian Gao and Yaogang Li 233

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[C017] Effects of particulate fly ash filler addition and sliding velocity on &

wear behaviour of epoxy system 235P. Barpanda

MODELLING

[C008] Delamination/debond Growth in Z-Fibre Reinforced CompositeT-Joint: A Finite Element Simulation 237G. Allegri and X. Zhang

[C062] Modelling of Delamination and Debonding in Laminated Compos-ites using a Moving Mesh Approach 239S. J. Lord & E. S. Greenhalgh

[B175] Monte-Carlo Simulation to Fracture of Cross-ply Laminates at Romeand Low Temperature 241H.Y.Jiang J.H.Zhao X.F.Wang

[B154] Design Buckling Curves for Clamped Orthotropic Laminated Plates 243N.G. Tsouvalis and V.J. Papazoglou

[C141] Influence of Loading Rate on Transverse Ply Crack Growth in Aer-onautical CFRP Laminates 245N.T. Nguyen, D. Gamby and M.C. Lafarie-Frenot

[C100] 3D-Stress Analysis of Anisotropic Plates Using a Boundary-OnlyHybrid Method 247Filis T. Kokkinos ajid John T. Katsikadelis

[C013] Nonlinear Analysis for Monitoring Bonded Patch Delamination 249Mineyuki Nishino and Takahira Aoki

[C039] Using a C 1 Triangular Finite Element Based on a Refined Modelfor Analyzing Buckling and Post-Buckling of Multilayered Shell Structure 251F. Dau, O. Polit and M. Touratier

AUTOMATED MANUFACTURING

INVITED SPEAKER: Prof. S.G. Advani and Dr. D. HeiderRole of Mold Filling Simulations in Composite Manufacturing

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Pa£e[A015] Assessment of a Novel Bondline Toughening Procedure for Com- 6

posite Vacuum Infusion In-Field Repairs 254D. Tzetzis, P.J. Hogg and M.Jogia

[B167] Generation of residual stresses and distortion during the cure ofpolymer matrix composites 256M. R. Wisnom and K. D. Potter

[C144] Production of GF/PP Woven Fabrics from Powder Coated Thermo-plastic Matrix Towpregs 258F. Novais, J. P. Nunes, J. F. Silva, F. van Hattum, P. Vieira, R. Fangueiro

[C028] Improved Design and Manufacture of a High Performance Com-posite Oar Blade 260J.A. Campbell, P. Compston, Z.H. Stachurski

CONSTRUCTION

[B042] Creep behaviour of reinforced concrete beams strengthened withcomposite plates 263Mickael Muller, Evelyne Toussaint, Jean-Francois Destrebecqand Michel Grediac

[B056] Characterization of Polymer Concrete made with Recycled Aggregate 265M. Sousa, J. M. L. Reis and A. J. M. Ferreira

[B051] Durability of FRP strengthened concrete structures 267A. Hammami, A. Alshamsi and S. Hareeb

[C067] Structural design and testing of a composite wind turbine towermodule. 269E. Gutierrez, Stefano Primi, F. Taucer A. Vinolo, and I. Calvo

[C023] Off-axis behaviour of cement matrix composites 270E. De Bolster, K. Watzeels, H. Cuypers and J. Wastiels

[C110] Optimization of multi-composed materials: Application to asphaltpavements 272R. Lackner, A. J'ager, K. Kappl, M. Spiegl, R. Blab, and J. Eberhardsteiner

[C131] Utilization of a rubber mat for the concrete caisson structures as afriction-increasing material 274M. Mayama, T. Imoto, M. Harada and M. Sakikawa

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[C136] Mechanics of shear FRP-strengthening of RC beams 276G Monti, and F Santinelli

FRACTURE AND FAILURE IN COMPOSITES

[A049] Damage evaluation of Glare® 4B under interlaminar shear loadingat elevated temperatures 278Stephan Hinz and Karl Schulte

[A061] Progressive damage characterization of stitched, Bi-Axial, Multi-Ply carbon fabrics composites 280M.Vettori, T. Truong Chi, S. V. Lomov, I.Verpoest

[B026] Analysis of Trough-the-Thickness Reiforcements Effect on the Fail-ure Modes of a Composite Rib Foot 282M. Grassi, A. Clarke, M. Gaitonde and N. Khemiri

[B004] Micromechanical analysis of strain rate effect on damage evolutionin discontinuous fibre composites 284Z. Jendli , J. Fitoussi, F. Meraghni, D. Baptiste a

[B127] 3D Finite Element Damage Analysis of a Twill-weave Lamina sub-jected to In-plane Shear 286G. Baruffaldi, G. Nicoletto, E. Riva

[A032] Evaluation of Generalized Stress Intensity Factors in AnisotropicElastic Multimaterial Corners 288A. Barroso, P. Toro, V. Man tie and F. Paris ;

[B162] X-Ray Tomographic Investigation of Stohastic Damage in PolymerComposites 290D. Raz, E. Wiesel, E. Maire, P. Cloetens and H. Daniel Wagner

[B166] Effects of Damage on the Energy Absorption of Composite Tubes 292N A Warrior, M Ribeaux, D A Bailey and A G Caliskan

FATIGUE OF COMPOSITES

[B041] Sequence effects in block amplitude fatigue loading of compositelaminates 295E. K. Gamstedt, B. A. Sjogren

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Page[A010] On the Failure Behaviour of a High-Frequency Loaded CFRP-Com-posite 297Wolfgang Fortsch Horst E. Franz Klaus Friedrich

[A055] Fatigue Behaviour of Reinforced Concrete Beam Strengthened witha CFRP Reinforced System 299J.L. Esteves, P. Vieira, A.T. Marques

[C065] Influence of the drilling on the fatigue behaviour of carbon epoxylaminates. 301Zouheir Hamdoun, Laurent Guillaumat, Jean-Luc Lataillade

[C195] Fatigue Damaging of Carbon/Epoxy Composite Plates with or with-out a hole 303L. Toubal, B. Lorrain, M. Karama D. Fournie, M. P. Ratel

[B131] Impact-fatigue behaviour of carbon/PEI Composite materials 305Tamer Sinmazc.elik, A.Armagan Arici, Taner Yilmaz

[C091] Cyclic characteristics of X-Linked and linear cored structures atelevated temperatures 308K. Kanny, H. Mahfuz

[B020] Determination of limit load fatigue failure of fibreglass reinforcedPA 6.6 Components using energy considerations 309I. Carrascal, J.A: Casado, J.A. Polanco y F. Gutierrez-Solana

METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES

[A028] High temperature creep of oxide-fibre/metal-matrix compositesunder variable loading 312S.T.Mileiko and V.M.Kiiko

[B100] Directional creep behaviour of magnesium matrix composites rein-forced by alumina fibres 314Karel Milicka and Ferdinand Dobes

[B101] Influence of matrix composition on creep of aluminium-based com-posites 316Ferdinand Dobes and Karel Milicka

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[B103] Formability Characteristics of Polymer-Metal Laminates and Ran-dom Fibre Based Fibre-Metal Laminates 318L. Mosse, W. Cantwell, M.J. Cardew-Hall, P. Compston,S. Kalyanasundaram

[B104] Effe'ct of Process Temperature and Blank-Holder Force on the Form-ing of Fibre Metal Laminate Systems 320L. Mosse, W. Cantwell, M.J. Cardew-Hall, P. Compston,S. Kalyanasundaram

[B152] Analysis and Behaviour of sandwich panels with Profiled metalfacings under transverse load 322M. Budescu, N. Taranu, I. Ciongradi, D. Isopescu, G. Oprisan and C. Marta

[C057] Finite element simulation and experimental determination of resid-ual stresses after extrusion process in Metal Matrix Composites 324E.Girardin, A.Giuliani, G.Albertini, P.McHugh

[C208] Modeling Damage Evolution and Fracture in Metal Matrix Com-posites 326David S. Wilkinson, Justin Gammage and Yves Brechet

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES

[C054] Comparison of shearing test methods for pultruded materials 328H.Fukuda, H. Takaki, M. Itabashi and A. Wada

[A016] A miniaturized post-impact compression test for curved composites 330M. Abe, P. J. Hogg and A Murakami

[C044] Impact damage in composite structures manufactured using the res-in infusion under flexible tooling (rift) process 332M. V. Donadon, J. Hodgkinson, B.G. Falzon, L. Iannucci

[A051] Micromechanical Yielding and Failure of CF/Epoxy caused by theFormation of Residual Stresses under Macroscopic Boundary Conditions 334T. Hobbiebrunken, Bodo Fiedler, Masaki Hojo, Mototsugu Tanaka,Shojiro Ochiai and Karl Schulte

[A037] An Experimental Micromechanical-Finite Element Assisted Approach ,into the Compressive Failure Mechanisms of Carbon Fibre Composites 336S. Goutianos, T. Peijs and C. Galiotis

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[C101] Buckling of FRP beams and columns 338L. Kollar and A. Sapkas

[C063] Rate-Dependent Mechanical Behavior of CFRP Laminates UnderCompression Loading 340R M Guedes, P H Magalhaes and J L Morais

[C146] Nonlinear Mechanical Response of CFRP Laminates under Off-Axis Tensile Loading 342S. Ogihara, E. Adachi and S. Kobayashi

[A031] Micromechanical aspects of the inter-fibre failure in fibrous com-posite materials under bi-axial loads 344F. Paris, E. Correa, V. Mantic

[C113] Effect of structural parameters on mechanical behaviour of stitchedsandwiches 346B. Lascoup, Z. Aboura, M. Benzeggagh

[B136] Mechanical performance of in-situ consolidated thermoplastic fib-er reinforced tape materials 348R. Schledjewski

[B145] Effects of stitch pattern on the mechanical properties of non-crimpfabric composites 350A. Sjogren, F. Edgren, and L.E. Asp

[C151] Investigations of Perforated Laminates in the Presence of ResidualStresses 352D. H. Pahr, C. Schuecker, F. G. Rammerstorfer, H. Pettermann

[C160] Plane stress wave interation under impact on the surface of a lay-ered composite panel 354V. A. Polyakov

[C181] A Technique for High Strain Rate SHPB Testing of Off-Axis Car-bon Fiber Composites 356Q. Bing and C.T. Sun

[C211] Mechanical behaviour in HDPE-tyre reused Rubber Composites.Effect of chemical modification 357X. Colom, F. Carrillo, F. Nogues, F. Andreu, J.I. Velasco, FJ. Canavate

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INTERFACE Page

[C019] Influence of PAN-based carbon fibers surface properties on the in-terfacial bonding to a phenolic matrix. 360P. Baudry, R. Pailler, M.-A. Dourges

[C105] Study on Time Dependent Interfacial Failure in Single Fiber Com-posites 362J. Koyanagi, T. Kamiya, G. Kiyota, H. Kawada

[B176] The use of microfocus synchrotron x-ray radiation as a novel tech-nique to study the interface in composites 364K. Schneider, N. E. Zafeiropoulos, R. J. Davies, M. Amici, S. V. Roth,M. Burghammer, and M. Stamm

[B124] Analysis of Interfacial Micromechanics of Single-Fibre Model Com-posites using Synchrotron Microfocus X-ray Diffraction 366Y.T. Shyng, R.J. Young and R.J. Davis

[C029] Determination of the interface colapse load between concrete andFiber reinforce polymer 368A.C. dos Santos, T.N. Bittencourt and R. Gettu

[B057] Controlling the Interfacial Response of High Performance PolymerFibre Composites using Functional Plasma Polymer Coatings 370S. Sugihara and F.R. Jones

[C050] Micromechanical investigation of the influence of fibre sizings onthe crack bridging behaviour of glass fibre composites 372S. Feiha, E. Cendrea, J. Weib, P. Kingshottb, B.F. S0rensena

[C154] Prediction of the Mechanical Properties of FRP's by Means of theConcept of Hybrid Interphase "374G.C.Papanicolaou, Th.V.Kosmidou, N.K.Anifantis

[B018] Transversal resistance of long-fibre composites: influence of thefibre-matrix interface 375V. Carvelli, A. Corigliano

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[B045] Comparison of different models for spherulitic growth evaluationin fiber-reinforced polymer composites 378G. Bogoeva-Gaceva and A. Grozdanov

[B071] Adhesive properties of toughened epoxy resins with pre-formedthermoplastic polymer particles 379H. Kishi, K. Uesawa, S. Matsuda and A. Murakami

[B093] The decoded model of transcrystallinity in carbon and aramid fib-ers reinforced nylon 66 composites by Synchrotron study 381Feldman A., E. Wachte, Moret M. and Marom G.

[B095] Evolution of the exfoliation of lamellar materials during polymeri-sation of polyamide-6 382J.M. Degrange, K. Masenelli-Varlot, G. Vigier, O. Mathieu, J. Varlet

[C010] Effect of temperature on nonlinear creep of some thermoplasts 384A. Aniskevich, J. Jansons, and O. Starkova

[C047] Reduction of Detrimental Mechanical Anisotropy of LCP Composites 386J. Enqvist and M. Enqvist

FIBRES

[B060] The hot compaction of woven polyethylene terephthalate multifila- 389mentsP.J.Hine and I.M.Ward

[A026] Random local load sharing in multifilament bundles : modellingand influence on ultimate failure composites 391J. Lamon, V. Calard

[A029] High temperature creep of single crystalline and eutectic oxide fi-bres produced by internal crystallisation method 392S.T.Mileiko, V.M.Kiiko, V.N.Kurlov, and A.A.Kolchin

[B002] UV-Ozone Surface Modification of Carbon Based Reinforcementsfor Composite Materials 394Per A. Askeland, Hiroyuki Fukushima, Michael J. Rich, and Lawrence T.Drzal

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[C145] Carbon Fibers from Novel Precursors: Melt-Processible PAN Ter- P a S e

polymers and UV-Assisted Stabilization Routes 396A. K. Naskar, S. Proulx, R. A. Walker, D. D. Edie and A. A. Ogale

[C059] The Effect of Alkali Treatment on the Physical and MechanicalProperties of Curaua Fibers 398A. Gomes, K. Goda and J. Ohgi

[B013] Self Repair And Enhanced Damage Visibility In A Hollow FibreReinforced Plastic 400I. Bond and J. Pang

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PLENARY LECTURE by:Prof. J. Seferis, "A Scalable Process for Utilization

of Nanotechnology in Polymeric Composites"

GENERAL APPLICATIONS

[C093] INVITED SPEAKER: Prof. A. Kelly and L.N. McCartneyControlling Thermal Expansion by Use of Composite Materials 403

[B155] Lightweight composite pressure housings for mid-water and benth-ic applications 405V. Papazoglou, F. Livingstone, P. Chauchot, G. Jennequin, I. Kilpatrick,R. Meddes, P. Stevenson, V. van Tooren-Antonelli, N. Tsouvalis andJ. Williams

[A005] Micromechanics damage and life prediction of carbon fiber com-posite pressure vessels 407Sebastien Blassiau, R. Bunsell and A. Thionnet

[B008] The influence of phonon transmission impedance on the thermalconductivity in composite material for cryogenic structure 409A. Alzina, A. Beakou, E. Toussaint and B. Skoczen

[B054] Design of high rotation frequency composite tubes 411O. Montagnier and Ch. Hochard

[B083] Development of Bearing Material and High Performance Bearingsfor Dry Applications Under Harsh Operating Conditions 413W. Hufenbach, J. Bijwe, K. Kunze and A. Langkamp

COMPOSITES, ENVIRONMENT AND RENEWABLE ENERGY

[C156] Recycling of PP-based sandwich panels with continuous fibers com-posite skins 415P. Corvaglia, A. Passaro, A. Guarino, O. Manni, L. Barone and A. Maffezzoli

[A003] Identification of 3D Moisture Diffusion Coefficients for Carbon/Epoxy Laminates 416J.Jedidi, F.Jacquemin and A.Vautrin

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[C009] Hygrothermal effects on interlaminar strength and crackingof thick a ^ e

Graphite-Phenolic Laminates 418Altus E., Ishai O. and Alon G.

[B126] Investigation of Hygrothermal Ageing Phenomena in Model Com-posites by Raman Spectroscopy 420A.J. Cervenka, R.J. Young and K. Kueseng

[C098] Study of PMCs on Stress-Corrosion Cracking (Effect of InterfacialDebonding Energy on Matrix Cracking) 422Akira KOBIKI, Hiroyuki KAWADAand Keishi Matsunaga

[C015] Influence of aqueous solutions on mechanical behaviour of GFRPcomposites at room temperature and at high temperature 424B.C.Ray

COMPOSITES IN CONSTRUCTIONS

[B079] A study on C.B.R. behaviour of sand - fly ash - sodium hydroxidemixture 427M. Ramesh Kumar and Dr. P. Devadas Manoharan Ph.D.

[B05Q] The vacuum infusion molding process for strengthening concretestructures 429A. Hammami, A. Alshamsi and S. Hareeb

[B069] FE investigation of bond behaviour between smooth composite FRProds and concrete with the effects of environmental parameters 431A.R. Khoei and H.R. Irannejad

[C196] Automated design of FRP-strengthened masonry 433T. Krevaikas and T. Triantafillou

[C153] Contribution of externally applied FRP composites to concrete sheartransfer 434Saenz, N., Pantelides, C.P., and Reave ley, L.D.

[C157] Strengthening of RC columns with FRP jackets 435R. Perera

[C193] Localized Effects in Structural Sandwich Panels: Practical Occur-rence, Analysis and Design 437O.T. Thomsen, E. Bozhevolnaya and A. Lyckegaard

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[C042] Analytical torsion model for strengthened concrete beams a ^ e

A. Deifalla and A. Ghobarah 440

[C183] Experimental Study on Repair of Cracked Steel Member by CFRPStrip and Stop Hole 442H. Suzuki

[C077] Embedded Sensor Based Health Monitoring System Of A Compos-ite Bridge Deck 444D. Heider, A. Dominauskas, Z. Yu, K. Yoon and J. W. Gillespie

[C076] Rapidly deployable, portable, GFRP vehicle Bridge DevelopmentProject 446P. Heffernan, G. Wight, C. Shyu, and M.-A. Erki

[C138] Post-tension strengthening via carbon fiber sheet for existing steelbridge girders 448H. Namiki, M. Tanaka, H. Ozasa, M. Hojo, T. Kitada and M. Matsumura

[C124] Development of novel urethane composites for vibrational control. 450A R Mackintosh, R A Pethrick and W M Banks

[C155] Interaction between shear and normal stress at concrete-FRP interface 452F. Bastianini, B. Bonfiglioli, C. Verlinden and G. Pascale

[C177] Deformability and durability of CFRP rebars and components un-der moisture and temperature action 4510. Starkova

SMART COMPOSITES

[C173] Recovery stress generation by shape memory alloy polycrystallineelements • 457P. Sittner, V. Novak, M. Landa and G.N. Daynanda

[C212] Design, Manufacture and Evaluation of Bending Control of Car-bon/Epoxy Composite Beams with Embedded SMA Wires 459G. Zhou, A.R. Giles and P. Lloyd

[B129] Identifying the Temperature Effect on the Damped Response ofComposite Beams using Piezoceramic Actuators and Sensors 461N. Chrysochoidis, S. Tzoutzouli and D.A. Saravanos

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[B046] Development of a smart composite patch methodology for the con- °tinuous health monitoring of aircraft repairs 463Z. Marioli-Riga and E.E. Gdoutos

[A054] Smart Composite Plates for Health Monitoring of a Boat Structure 465C. Novo, A.N. Costa, M. Sousa, A. Torres Marques, O. Frazao and I. Dias

[C069] Implementation of a multifunctional piezoelectric embedded sen-sor for the health monitoring of the whole life cycle of a real compositestructure 466T. Monnier, P. Guy, N. Godin and Y. Jayet

[C031] Validation of a Piezoelectric Laminated Plate Modelling 468J.-F. Caron, M. Vandamme and A. Ehrlacher

[B074] Active Fibre Composites: Sensors and Actuators for Smart Com-posites & Structures 470X. Kornmann, C. Huber, M. Barbezat and AJ. Brunner

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