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Effect of Moisture Absorption on Curing of Wind Blades during Repair
Sagar P. Shah, Michael N. Olaya, Evgenia Plaka +3
Efficient structural repair of wind turbine blades is essential to limiting global warming and reducing the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE). Repairs carried out up-tower are sensit…
Verification and Validation of a Rapid Design Tool for the Analysis of the Composite Y-Joint of the D8 Double-Bubble Aircraft
Evgenia Plaka, Stephen P. Jones, Brett A. Bednarcyk +3
Polymer composite joints are critical aerospace components for reinforcing lightweight structures and achieving high eco-efficiency transportation standards. Optimizing complex str…
Micro-scale process modeling and residual stress prediction in fiber-reinforced polymers using refined structural models
Manish H. Nagaraj, Marianna Maiaru
The present work introduces a novel numerical approach for the process modeling of fiber-reinforced thermoset polymers at the micro-scale level, that can be used to predict curing-…
Understanding the Origin of the Low Cure-Shrinkage of Polybenzoxazine Resin by Computational Simulation
Prashik S. Gaikwad, Aaron S. Krieg, Prathamesh P. Deshpande +4
Thermoset resin-based composite materials are widely used in the aerospace industry, mainly due to their high stiffness-to-weight and strength-to-weight ratios. A major issue with…
Molecular Dynamics Study to Predict Thermo-Mechanical Properties of DGEBF/DETDA Epoxy as a Function of Crosslinking Density
Sagar Umesh Patil, Sagar P. Shah, Michael N. Olaya +3
Epoxy resins are used extensively in composite materials for a wide range of engineering applications, including structural components of aircraft and spacecraft. The processing of…
Molecular Dynamics Modeling of Epoxy Resins using the Reactive Interface Force Field
G. M. Odegard, S. U. Patil, P. Deshpande +5
Predictive computational modeling of polymer materials is necessary for the efficient design of composite materials and the corresponding processing methods. Molecular dynamics (MD…