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Giovanni Totaro (CIRA Italian Aerospace Research Centre) Claudio Ferrara (Sapienza University of Rome) Felice De Nicola (CIRA Italian Aerospace Research Centre)

The axial compression test on a composite anisogrid panel with skin is discussed in the paper. The interpretation of the test results is enhanced via digital image correlation based on a stereo-camera system.

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Matthias Barus (Université de Toulouse) Hélène Welemane (Université de Toulouse) Francis Collombet (Institut Clément Ader) Marie Laetitia Pastor (Université de Toulouse) A. Cantarel (Institut Clément Ader) Valérie Nassiet (Université de Toulouse) Laurent Crouzeix (Institut Clément Ader) Yves-Henri Grunevald (Composites Expertises & Solutions)

This paper deals with the NDT analysis of a bonded repair CFRP laminates by means of active Infrared Thermograhy. In regard to the close properties of the glue and the laminates, relevant additives are used to improve the the detection of defects.

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Janice Dulieu-Barton (University of Southampton) Ole Thybo Thomsen (University of Southampton) Wei Wang (University of Southampton)

A methodology has been developed for capturing the temperature increase at a propagating crack using high speed IR thermography. It is shown that by measuring the temperature the interfacial fracture toughness can be determined.

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Mohamed Loukil (Swerea SICOMP) Janis Varna (Lulea University of Technology)

Degradation of the elastic properties of composite laminates with transverse cracks is due to two parameters: the crack opening displacement (COD) and the crack sliding displacement (CSD). These parameters are measured experimentally using ESPI.

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James Thatcher (University of Southampton) D.A. Crump (University of Southampton) Peter Bailey (Instron) Janice Dulieu-Barton (University of Southampton)

The possibility of controlling the rate of damage evolution during a cyclic test, using IRT, is investigated. The results, to establish the relationship between the recorded temperature change and damage condition in composite material, are described.

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Osman Ajmal (University of Surrey) Andrew Crocombe (University of Surrey) Michael Gower (NPL) David Jesson (University of Surrey) Stephen Ogin (University of Surrey)

3D-DIC can be used to detect the presence and size of fully embedded delaminations within GFRP panels. This paper considers two types of delamination inserts from which the position and size of the defects were clearly visible from the DIC results.

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Jagadeesh Narayana swamy (Delft University of Technology ) Francisco Lahuerta (WMC, Knowledge centre) Andrei Anisimov (Delft University of Technology ) Rogier Nijssen (Knowledge Centre WMC) R. M. Groves (Delft University of Technology )

A novel method to use infrared thermography technique for the quantitative analysis of delamination area in composites under fatigue loading. The output of the test was promising and can be extended for more experimental and computational research.

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Rachael Tighe (University of Southampton) Janice Dulieu-Barton (University of Southampton)

As the first step towards strain based non-destructive evaluation using complimentary approaches, thermoelastic stress analysis and lock-in digital image correlation are used for the inspection of composite components using vibration based loading.

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Jens Kosmann (German Aerospace Center) Thomas Löbel (German Aerospace Center) Dirk Holzhüter (German Aerospace Center) Christian Hühne (German Aerospace Center) Martin Schollerer (German Aerospace Center)

The focus of this work is the high resolution digital image correlation strain measurement of adhesively bonded joints. Especially in scarf repaired coupons and crack lap shear specimens the strain distribution along the bondline is highly uneven.

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