Browsing Waterloo Research by Author "Montesano, John"
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Assessing strain fields in unbalanced unidirectional non-crimp fabrics
Trejo Sandoval, Eleazar Alberto; Ghazimoradi, Mehdi; Butcher, Clifford; Montesano, John (Elsevier, 2020-03)Automation of fabric preforming for resin transfer moulded composite parts motivates the need to characterize the response of dry fabric, which is required for the development of simulation models to predict potential ... -
Assessment of failure toughening mechanisms in continuous glass fiber thermoplastic laminates subjected to cyclic loading
Nikforooz, M; Montesano, John; Golzar, Mohammad; Shokrieh, Mahmood Mehrdad (Elsevier, 2019-03-15)Tensile fatigue behaviour of glass fiber/polyamide composites, including unidirectional ([0]8, [90]8) and cross-ply ([02/902]s, [04/904]s and [904/04]s) laminates, was studied and compared to that of similar glass fiber/epoxy ... -
Assessment of the thermomechanical performance of continuous glass fiber-reinforced thermoplastic laminates
Nikforooz, M.; Montesano, John; Golzar, M.; Shokrieh, Mahmood Mehrdad (Elsevier, 2018-05-01)The effects of temperature on the static tensile behavior of continuous E-glass/polyamide laminates were studied in order to assess the feasibility of using the material system for structural applications. Uniaxial tensile ... -
Characterization of Snap-Cure Epoxy Resin under Tension and Compression Loading at Quasi-static, Intermediate and High Strain Rates
Zeng, Yu; Cronin, Duane; Montesano, John (2022)The recent development of snap curing epoxy resins, low-cost reinforcement fabrics, and automated rapid processing technologies has led to increased usage of fiber-reinforced plastic (FRP) composite materials in high-volume ... -
Extrudable hydroxyapatite/plant oil-based biopolymer nanocomposites for biomedical applications: Mechanical testing and modeling
Bahmani, Aram; Comeau, Patricia A.; Montesano, John; Willett, Thomas L. (Elsevier, 2019-07-15)Towards developing bone-inspired, high performance composite biomaterials, two nanocomposite inks, consisting of a plant oil-based biopolymer resin (soybean oil epoxidized acrylate (SOEA)) and silanized nano-hydroxyapatite ... -
Influence of drilling and abrasive water jet induced damage on the performance of carbon fabric/epoxy plates with holes
Montesano, John; Bougherara, Habiba; Fawaz, Zouheir (Elsevier, 2017-03-01)The influence of conventional drilling (CD) and abrasive water jet (AWJ) cutting on the fatigue performance of carbon fabric/epoxy plates was investigated. Observations of machined hole regions revealed more severe damage ... -
The micro-damage process zone during transverse cortical bone fracture: No ears at crack growth initiation
Willett, Thomas; Josey, David; Lu, Rick Xing Ze; Minhas, Gagan; Montesano, John (Elsevier, 2017-10-01)Apply high-resolution benchtop micro-computed tomography (micro-CT) to gain greater understanding and knowledge of the formation of the micro-damage process zone formed during traverse fracture of cortical bone. Bovine ... -
Modelling the micro-damage process zone during cortical bone fracture
Dapaah, Daniel; Badaoui, Raphael; Bahmani, Aram; Montesano, John; Willett, Thomas (Elsevier, 2020-02-01)Cortical bone employs intrinsic toughening mechanisms to delay crack growth initiation and propagation hence increasing its fracture toughness. Computational models of the bone fracture process though do not explicitly ... -
A new approach to rapidly generate random periodic representative volume elements for microstructural assessment of high volume fraction composites
Li, Geng; Sharifpour, Farzad; Bahmani, Aram; Montesano, John (Elsevier, 2018-07-15)An algorithm based on event-driven molecular dynamics theory was developed to rapidly generate periodic representative volume elements (RVEs) with nonuniform distributions for both unidirectional fibre-reinforced and ... -
Predicting the axial crush response of CFRP tubes using three damage-based constitutive models
Cherniaev, Aleksandr; Butcher, Clifford; Montesano, John (Elsevier, 2018-08)Availability of newly developed rapid manufacturing processes may in the near future enable the integration of continuous fiber composites into vehicles while maintaining the volume production rates typical for the automotive ... -
Prediction of ply crack evolution and stiffness degradation in multidirectional symmetric laminates under multiaxial stress states
Montesano, John; McCleave, Brent; Singh, Chandra Veer (Elsevier, 2018-01-15)A comprehensive study was performed to assess the influence of microscopic ply crack interactions on crack surface opening (COD) and sliding displacements (CSD) for arbitrary plies in general symmetric multidirectional ... -
Processability and tensile performance of continuous glass fiber/polyamide laminates for structural load-bearing applications
Nikforooz, M; Golzar, M; Shokrieh, Mahmood Mehrdad; Montesano, J (Elsevier, 2018-02)The performance of continuous E-glass/polyamide 6 laminates processed using distinct hot press moulding cycles was assessed and compared with similar E-glass/epoxy and E-glass/polypropylene laminates. The effects of peak ... -
Quasi-static and dynamic characterization of unidirectional non-crimp carbon fiber fabric composites processed by HP-RTM
Cherniaev, Aleksandr; Zeng, Yu; Cronin, Duane; Montesano, John (Elsevier, 2019-07)Recently developed high-pressure resin transfer molding (HP-RTM) processes have enabled the integration of lightweight fiber-reinforced composites into automobiles (e.g., frame and roof components, floor segments), which ... -
Three-dimensional micromechanical assessment of bio-inspired composites with non-uniformly dispersed inclusions
Bahmani, Aram; Li, Geng; Willett, Thomas L; Montesano, John (Elsevier, 2019-03-15)Bio-inspired composites with hexagonal platelet and cylindrical inclusions were studied. A novel algorithm termed staggered hardcore algorithm (SHCA) was used to rapidly generate 3D periodic representative volume elements ... -
Time-dependent damage analysis for viscoelastic-viscoplastic structural laminates under biaxial loading
Berton, Thomas; Haldar, Sandip; Montesano, John; Singh, Chandra Veer (Elsevier, 2018-11-01)Many composite structures are required to sustain severe thermo-mechanical loads over extended periods of time, during which viscoelastic and viscoplastic behavior can cause the progression of micro-damage. In this paper, ...