PSI - Issue 33

Costanzo Bellini et al. / Procedia Structural Integrity 33 (2021) 824–831 Author name / Structural Integrity Procedia 00 (2019) 000–000

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Fig. 1. Mesh for the numerical model: (a) long beam; (b) short beam.

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Fig. 2. Boundary conditions for the numerical model: (a) long beam; (b) short beam.

Fig. 3. Representation of the manufacturing process of the analysed FML. (Bellini et al. 2020)

Once the laminate had been produced, the specimens to be tested were cut from it through a diamond disk saw. Being the thickness of long and short beams the same, the two kinds of specimens were taken from the same laminate. As concerns the parameters of the long beam bending test, a loading nose speed of 6 mm/min was adopted, while the span length was 136 mm. Instead, the parameters of the short beam test were characterized by a loading nose speed of 1 mm/min and a span length of 20 mm.