Outputs (11)

Design strategy for 3D layer-to-layer angle interlock woven composites (2024)
Journal Article
Sitnikova, E., Xu, M., Kong, W., Hu, S., & Li, S. (2024). Design strategy for 3D layer-to-layer angle interlock woven composites. Materials and Design, 247, Article 113414. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matdes.2024.113414

A design strategy for 3D layer-to-layer angle interlock woven composites has been established by employing a set of three key properties of the weave (KPoWs): the global fibre volume fraction, the interlocking angle and the ratio of the weft tow volu... Read More about Design strategy for 3D layer-to-layer angle interlock woven composites.

A novel continuum damage evolution model based on the concept of damage driving force for unidirectional composites (2024)
Journal Article
Yu, T., Qi, W., Sitnikova, E., & Li, S. (2024). A novel continuum damage evolution model based on the concept of damage driving force for unidirectional composites. International Journal of Damage Mechanics, https://doi.org/10.1177/10567895241292744

A novel damage evolution model for unidirectional (UD) composites is established in this paper in the context of continuum damage mechanics (CDM). It addresses matrix cracking and it is to be applied along with the damage representation established p... Read More about A novel continuum damage evolution model based on the concept of damage driving force for unidirectional composites.

A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites (2024)
Journal Article
Yang, Y.-C., Gou, J.-J., Gong, C.-L., Sun, Y.-E., & Li, S. (2025). A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites. Composite Structures, 352, Article 118648. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruct.2024.118648

The uncertainty quantification is crucial to the high-precision prediction of composites’ effective properties. However, the unclear input uncertainties of multiscale parameters, complex uncertainty propagations of inter-scale correlations, and unaff... Read More about A multi-scale uncertainty quantification model encompassing minimum-size unit cells for effective properties of plain woven composites.

A critical appraisal of the Hashin failure criterion (2024)
Journal Article
Li, S., & Sitnikova, E. (2024). A critical appraisal of the Hashin failure criterion. Journal of Composite Materials, 58(29), 3045-3058. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983241289488

The Hashin criterion is one the most popular failure criteria for fibre reinforce composites. It is critically appraised in this paper. The most significant feature of the criterion is failure modes introduced and the assumption that failure is deter... Read More about A critical appraisal of the Hashin failure criterion.

Unveiling the deformability of mussel plaque core: the role of pore distribution and hierarchical structure (2024)
Journal Article
Lyu, Y., Tan, M., Pang, Y., Sun, W., Li, S., & Liu, T. (2024). Unveiling the deformability of mussel plaque core: the role of pore distribution and hierarchical structure. Soft Matter, 20(37), 7405-7419. https://doi.org/10.1039/d4sm00832d

The mussel thread-plaque system exhibits strong adhesion and high deformability, allowing it to adhere to various surfaces. While the microstructure of plaques has been thoroughly studied, the effect of their unique porous structure on the high defor... Read More about Unveiling the deformability of mussel plaque core: the role of pore distribution and hierarchical structure.

Validation of the fully rationalized Tsai-Wu failure criterion for unidirectional laminates under multiaxial stress states through a ring-on-ring test (2024)
Journal Article
Li, J., Yan, S., Kong, W., & Li, S. (2024). Validation of the fully rationalized Tsai-Wu failure criterion for unidirectional laminates under multiaxial stress states through a ring-on-ring test. Composites Science and Technology, 257, Article 110813. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compscitech.2024.110813

Validating a failure criterion under complex stress states is important because composites often encounter multiaxial stress in practical applications, but it also helps to expose any deficiencies of the criterion in failure prediction in the presenc... Read More about Validation of the fully rationalized Tsai-Wu failure criterion for unidirectional laminates under multiaxial stress states through a ring-on-ring test.

Stress or strain? (2024)
Journal Article
Li, S. (2024). Stress or strain?. Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 480(2295), Article 20240269. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2024.0269

This article is intended to reconcile the stress-based and strain-based formulations for material failure criteria, where a long-standing and deep division is present. The two approaches do not naturally agree with each other, and they do not genuine... Read More about Stress or strain?.

Characterisation of 3D woven textile composites in presence of minor weft tow undulations and cross-section variations (2024)
Journal Article
Xu, M., Sitnikova, E., Kong, W., Zhang, J., Hu, S., & Li, S. (2024). Characterisation of 3D woven textile composites in presence of minor weft tow undulations and cross-section variations. Journal of Composite Materials, 58(25), 2671-2691. https://doi.org/10.1177/00219983241270939

Weft tows in 3D woven composites are commonly approximated as perfectly straight, but their undulations are inevitable in reality, although the extent of undulations in the weft tows is not as pronounced as in the warp tows. Such minor undulations in... Read More about Characterisation of 3D woven textile composites in presence of minor weft tow undulations and cross-section variations.

Stress Invariants and Invariants of the Failure Envelope as a Quadric Surface: Their Significances in the Formulation of a Rational Failure Criterion (2024)
Journal Article
Li, S. (2024). Stress Invariants and Invariants of the Failure Envelope as a Quadric Surface: Their Significances in the Formulation of a Rational Failure Criterion. Mechanics of Materials, 196, Article 105076. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mechmat.2024.105076

When stress invariants up to the second order are employed to construct failure criterion for brittle materials, it involves three independent terms and therefore there are three coefficients to be determined. However, there are only two conditions a... Read More about Stress Invariants and Invariants of the Failure Envelope as a Quadric Surface: Their Significances in the Formulation of a Rational Failure Criterion.

Rational implementation of the Mohr criterion in its general form (2024)
Journal Article
Li, S. (2024). Rational implementation of the Mohr criterion in its general form. International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 279, 109449. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2024.109449

The Mohr criterion is successfully implemented for brittle materials in its general form based on failure envelopes formulated using quadratic functions. This is probably the first time when the criterion has been made comprehensive enough and yet co... Read More about Rational implementation of the Mohr criterion in its general form.