Theoretical analysis and experimental investigation of the occurrence of fiber bridging in unidirectional laminates under Mode I loading

Composite laminates have been extensively used in the aerospace and automotive industries due to their excellent stiffness and strength. Fiber bridging is a unique phenomenon of layered composite materials that increases the fracture toughness of the composites several times. This characteristic enables fiber bridging to be an important crack shielding mechanism during delamination and arouses wide attention from researchers. Most research is...