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Delamination is the silent killer of composite structures. It often begins at free edges, where the mismatch in elastic properties between plies creat...
When a leading motorsport team's suspension arm failed at the mounting edge during a critical race, the post-mortem revealed a familiar culprit: the l...
In high-stakes edge-protection applications—crash barriers, marine fenders, industrial bumpers—the composite laminate itself is rarely the weak link. ...
Micro-impact fatigue doesn't announce itself. There is no dramatic crack, no sudden delamination—just a gradual erosion of edge integrity that, over a...
When a composite edge meets an impact at 30 degrees off the primary fiber direction, the failure mode shifts from fiber breakage to delamination and e...
At the top of the sport, a single equipment failure can erase a season of preparation. Edge-protection composites—the reinforced laminates used on ski...