Publications by Véronique Michaud

Development of a Sustainable Thermoplastic Composite Material Using Manicaria saccifera Fabric and Elium® Resin

The massive production of nonrenewable materials has exacerbated global environmental challenges, necessitating the development of sustainable alternatives. This study explores the potential of the Manicaria saccifera fabric, an indigenous Colombian natura ...

2025

Mitigation of infusion and cure-induced defects for thick thermosetting composites: Current challenges and future trends

Véronique Michaud

The composite part industry is currently dominated by thin-section geometries. However, thick composites gain interest in many applications where monolithic parts are required, such as foils, wind mill root blades, and so forth. Their manufacturing continu ...

2025

Translaminar fracture in (non–)hybrid thin-ply fibre-reinforced composites: An in-depth examination through a novel mini-compact tension specimen compatible with microscale 4D computed tomography

Joël Cugnoni, Véronique Michaud, Guillaume Clément Broggi, Alexios Argyropoulos

Translaminar fracture toughness is pivotal for notch sensitivity and damage tolerance of fibre-reinforced composites. Hybridisation offers a promising pathway for enhancing this parameter in thin-ply composites. Three novel mini-compact tension specimen ge ...

2025

Towards standardisation of the out-of-plane permeability measurement for reinforcement textiles

Véronique Michaud, Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal, Helena Luisa Teixido Pedarros

In the collaborative effort towards standardisation of out-of-plane permeability measurement, an international benchmarking exercise was carried out whereby 19 participants worldwide were instructed to measure the out-of-plane permeability following a numb ...

2025

Effect of Polypropylene-grafted-maleic Anhydride and Rice Husk Particle Size on 3d-printing Filament Composites From Recycled Polypropylene

Véronique Michaud

This study evaluates the combined roles of particle size and the addition of maleic anhydride polypropylene (PP-g-MAH) to improve 3D printing and mechanical properties of composite filaments based on recycled polypropylene (rPP) and rice husk (RH) obtained ...

WILEY2025

A new ISO standard for the experimental characterization of in-plane permeability of fibrous reinforcements

Véronique Michaud

During Liquid Composite Molding, a fibrous reinforcement is impregnated with liquid resin. Process design requires knowledge of the reinforcement permeability for fluid flow, but until recently, there has been no standard available for its measurement. In ...

2025

Influence of Growth Location and Extraction Method on the Properties of Cameroonian Musa acuminata Leaf Vein Fibers

Véronique Michaud, Valentin Rougier

Banana plants form an abundant source of agricultural waste, which can be exploited to extract fibers. Whereas the trunk and pseudo-stem are currently exploited, leaf ribs, which are several meters long, could form a valuable source of fibers for use in st ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2025

Combined computational-experimental investigation of residual stresses and pre-cracking in mode I behaviour of thick adhesively bonded GFRP composite joints

Véronique Michaud, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Jialiang Fan

This paper presents a novel Finite Element (FE) simulation approach to examine the mode I fracture of thick adhesive joints used particularly in the trailing edge of the wind turbine blades. The approach involved FE models of the DCB specimens focusing on ...

Elsevier BV2025

A new equivalent crack length technique for mode I fracture of adhesively bonded joints

Véronique Michaud, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Jialiang Fan

The current investigation introduces the concepts of the equivalent crack length approach for thin and thick adhesive joints. Its applicability is assessed for adhesively bonded composite and steel joints with a bondline thickness ranging from 0.4 mm to 10 ...

2025

Saturated transverse permeability of unidirectional rovings for pultrusion: The effect of microstructural evolution through compaction

Véronique Michaud, Guillaume Clément Broggi

The transverse permeability of roving/tow-based fiber reinforcement is of great importance for accurate flow modeling in the pultrusion process. This study proposes an experimental approach to characterize the roving-based fiber beds' permeability under di ...

Wiley2024

An experimental and analytical study of mode I fracture and crack kinking in thick adhesive joints

Véronique Michaud, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Jialiang Fan

This study investigates the fracture behavior of thick adhesive joints manufactured with composite adherends and bonded with an epoxy-based structural adhesive common to the wind turbine industry. For that purpose, double cantilever beam specimens with an ...

Elsevier BV2024

Self-catalysed frontal polymerisation enables fast and low-energy processing of fibre reinforced polymer composites

Véronique Michaud, Baris Çaglar, Jacobus Gerardus Rudolph Staal

Frontal polymerisation has the potential to bring unprecedented reductions in energy demand and process time to produce fibre reinforced polymer composites. Production of epoxy-based fibre reinforced polymer parts with high fibre volume content, commonly e ...

2024

Enhancing the mechanical performance of composite corners through microstructural optimization and geometrical design

Véronique Michaud, Robin Amacher, Vincent Marc Varanges, Yann Albert Gérard Lebaupin, Valentin Rougier

Processing carbon fiber-reinforced composites into corner sections through compression molding poses challenges due to the limited flowability of continuous prepregs, resulting in reduced curved beam strength (CBS). The use of discontinuous plies was explo ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2024

Healable adhesive paste development for thick adhesive joints

Véronique Michaud, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Jialiang Fan

A new adhesive formulation is developed, enabling assisted self-healing for wind turbine rotor blade (WTRB) applications. The properties of this epoxy based formulation are compared to those of a state-of-the-art toughened epoxy adhesive (Sikapower (R)-830 ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2024

On the influence of flow-front orientation on stringer stiffened composite panels in water impacts

Véronique Michaud

Water impacts form the critical load case for high-performance carbon fibre reinforced polymer (CFRP) racing craft. Such events produce a peaked, non-uniform pressure distribution that travels along a hull panel as it is immersed. Current design standards ...

2024

Performance polyamides built on a sustainable carbohydrate core

Véronique Michaud, François Maréchal, Jeremy Luterbacher, Holger Frauenrath, Lorenz Perry Manker, Maxime Alexandre Clément Hedou

Sustainably producing plastics with performance properties across a variety of materials chemistries is a major challenge-especially considering that most performance materials use aromatic precursors that are still difficult to source sustainably. Here we ...

Nature Portfolio2024

A multiscale consolidation model for press molding of hybrid textiles into complex geometries

Véronique Michaud

Modeling the consolidation of fiber-reinforced thermoplastic composites at the part level presents a formidable computational challenge due to the multi-scale nature of the process. In this article, a method to bypass the multi-scale problem by homogenizin ...

Wiley2024

Void content and displacement ratio effects on fatigue crack growth in thick adhesively bonded composite joints under constant amplitude loading

Véronique Michaud, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Jialiang Fan

This article investigates the influence of displacement ratio (R d-ratio) and void content on the fatigue behavior of Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) joints with thick adhesive layer (10 mm). Two R d-ratios and two different void contents were studied. To ach ...

2024

Enabling simultaneous reprocessability and fire protection via incorporation of phosphine oxide monomer in epoxy vitrimer

Véronique Michaud, Valentin Rougier

The conception of epoxy thermosets with both reprocessability and flame retardancy delineates a new horizon in polymer science, offering a material solution that is not only superior in fire safety but is also environment friendly. Herein, a flame-retardan ...

Journal Mater Sci Technol2024

Mode I fracture of thick adhesively bonded GFRP composite joints for wind turbine rotor blades

Véronique Michaud, Anastasios Vassilopoulos, Jialiang Fan

This article investigates the effects of voids, joint geometry, and test conditions on the quasi-static Mode I fracture performance of thick adhesive Double Cantilever Beam (DCB) joints such as those prevailing in wind industry and shipbuilding. The specim ...

2024