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The cardiovascular diseases constitute one of the main causes of death worldwide. One of the main diseases is atherosclerosis, which causes narrowing of the arterial lumen. In order to solve this condition, several treatments have been developed, and Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary [...]

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A method based on the Refined Zigzag Theory (RZT) to model delamination in composite laminated beam structures is presented. The novelty of this method is the [...]

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A numerical method based on the Refined Zigzag Theory (RZT) to model delamination in composite laminated plate/shell structures is presented. The originality of [...]

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The numerical simulation of complex failure modes of composite materials, such as delamination, can be computationally very demanding, as it requires special elements and/or numerical strategies to characterize damage [...]

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This work shows possibilities and limitations of the refined zigzag theory (RZT) that has been used in different structural (beam, plate and shell) finite elements. The refined zigzag theory can deal with composite laminates, adding only one nodal degree of freedom per spatial [...]

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The purpose of the present study is the evaluation of the bending-twisting coupling effect in the analysis of the DCB test by means of the analytical determination of the energy release rate of angle-ply laminated composites. The aim is to extend a previous work done by the same [...]

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Impact is one of most critical stress over a structure, so as it induces a high strain rate on the material. Under low speed transverse impacts in composites, the secuence of material degradation is: intralaminar [...]

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The present study investigates delamination damage initiation and propagation within a homogenization theory of mixtures, using the concept of virtual layers and virtual interfaces. It [...]

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The post-impact strength of composite materials is one of the main design parameters of aeronautical structures in terms of damage tolerance. During the low-velocity impact test, from a threshold energy, the [...]