Compressive damage mode manipulation of fiber-reinforced polymer composites

The low compressive strength of fiber-reinforced polymer (FRP) composites has been one of the critical problems limiting their applications. The compressive damage behaviors of FRP composites are much more complicated than their tensile failure behaviors, usually including different modes, such as delamination and kink-band instability, thereby throwing a great challenge to increase the compressive strength of FRP composites by maneuvering the...