A numerical and experimental study on the multiple fracture progression of CFRP T-joints under pull-off load

This paper reports a combined numerical and experimental study on the multiple fracture evolution in carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) T-joints under pull-off load. The experimental study successfully captured the sequential fracture initiation and evolution involving a complex interplay among noodle cracking, noodle-skin and skin-stiffener delamination, and their correlation with the load-displacement curves. Numerically, two independent...