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Sutherland, L.S. and Guedes Soares, C. (2011), “Impact on Marine Composite Laminated Materials”, Maritime Engineering and Technology, Guedes Soares et al. (Eds),Taylor & Francis Group, London, pp. 979-991

This paper presents an overview of an extensive, mainly experimentally based, study of the impact response of marine composite materials carried out over the past several years. The work has investigated the progression of damage modes with increasing incident energy, the effects of test and material properties, the contact indentation, comparisons between common marine laminates and with steel and marine grade aluminium, scaling effects, and suitability of the use of quasi-static tests to obtain dynamic the response. This work has provided a wealth of important information on the impact behaviour of the material systems used in the marine industry, and hardly touched upon in the existing literature. Although numerical modelling techniques may be helpful, an experimental approach is essential. Some recommendations when carrying out such experimental studies have been made.

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