Publications by Amaël Maximilien Cohades

A Novel Method to Quantify Self-Healing Capabilities of Fiber-Reinforced Polymers

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Robin Samuel Trigueira, Cecilia Scazzoli

The present work investigates a novel and practical method to evaluate the healing efficiency of carbon-reinforced polymer composites. The method should be representative of damage occurring during the lifetime of a composite part, should tend to damage th ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Out-of-plane permeability measurement for reinforcement textiles: A benchmark exercise

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Damiano Salvatori, Baris Çaglar

The out-of-plane permeability of two glass fibre fabrics was measured by 26 institutions using silicone oil as a test fluid. Participants in this study were free to select the test procedure, specimen dimensions and data analysis method, provided that test ...

2021

Statistical Fatigue Investigation and Failure Prediction of a Healable Composite System

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Nathan Klaus Hostettler

Fiber reinforced polymers are massively used as an alternative to metals in structural applications. The brittle nature of their matrix, however, makes them more susceptible to crack formation and propagation resulting in costly repair operations and incre ...

2020

Composite material

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

In a composite material (6), comprising a fibrous reinforcement (3), and a polymer matrix (14), wherein the polymer matrix (14) comprises two interpenetrating phases, namely a thermoset phase and a continuous thermoplastic phase, wherein the thermoset phas ...

2020

Stitched shape memory alloy wires enhance damage recovery in self-healing fibre-reinforced polymer composites

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Nathan Klaus Hostettler

A major issue in composite technology is matrix micro-cracking due to low-velocity impact damage, which may severely limit service lifetimes of composite parts. In a novel approach, remarkable levels of healing of impact damage are obtained using shape mem ...

2018

Size limitations on achieving tough and healable fibre reinforced composites through the use of thermoplastic nanofibres

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Lode Geeraard Daelemans

Phase-separated blends of epoxy and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) provide crack repair in composites after a thermal treatment at 150 °C, but decrease the material’s fracture toughness. This article investigates the combination of healing with interlaminar fr ...

2018

Electrospun nanofibrous interleaves for improved low velocity impact resistance of glass fibre reinforced composite laminates

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Lode Geeraard Daelemans

This study analyses the damage tolerance of nanofibre interleaved composites when subjected to low velocity impact. Cross-ply glass/epoxy composite laminates are produced. Drop-weight impact and residual compressive strength measurements are performed on t ...

2018

Shape memory alloys in fibre-reinforced polymer composites

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

This article reviews the current state-of-the-art in the applications of shape memory alloy (SMA) wires into high performance fibre reinforced polymer composite materials (FRPs). SMAs have been investigated to date to address four main areas of properties ...

2018

Progress in Self-Healing Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Composites

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

This paper sets out to review the current state of the art in applying self-healing/self-repair to high-performing advanced fiber-reinforced polymer composite materials (FRPs). A significant proportion of self-healing studies have focused so far on develop ...

WILEY2018

Functional composites with damage control and repair

Amaël Maximilien Cohades

Fibre Reinforced Polymer (FRP) composite structures are subjected during service to low energy impacts or unexpected loads, leading to damage. Microcracks are generally first formed in the matrix and can reach up to several hundred microns in thickness. In ...

EPFL2018

Damage recovery after impact in E-glass reinforced poly(epsilon-caprolactone)/epoxy blends

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

Damage recovery after low-velocity impact has been assessed in woven E-glass fibre-reinforced polymer composites with an epoxy matrix and a blend of epoxy and 25 vol% of poly(e-caprolactone) (PCL). Impact was carried out at three energy levels (8.5, 17, 34 ...

Elsevier2017

Thermal mending in E-glass reinforced poly(epsilon-caprolactone)/epoxy blends

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

Blends of difunctional epoxy monomer with a 4,4'-diaminodiphenylsulfone hardener and poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL) were used as a self-healing matrix in woven glass fibre-reinforced polymer composites (FRPs). FRPs with these blends (containing 0, 25 and ...

Elsevier2017

Healing of a glass fibre reinforced composite with a disulphide containing organic-inorganic epoxy matrix

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Wouter Post

We report the development of an intrinsic healing glass fibre reinforced polymer (GFRP) composite based on a disulphide-containing organic-inorganic thermoset matrix. Thermomechanical experiments showed that the newly developed matrix has a combination of ...

Elsevier2017

Thermal mending in immiscible poly(epsilon-caprolactone)/epoxy blends

John Christopher Plummer, Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Erica Manfredi

Blends of commercial epoxy monomer with a 4,4'-diaminodiphenylsulfone hardener and poly(epsilon-caprolactone) (PCL) were evaluated for their potential as a self-healing matrix for fiber-reinforced composites, based on their room temperature toughness and s ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2016

Designing laminated metal composites for tensile ductility

Andreas Mortensen, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Arda Cetin

This contribution draws practical implications of a recently published estimation of the tensile ductility in laminated composites made of two ductile materials, typically metals or alloys, which harden as both the strain and the strain-rate increase. To t ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2015

Assessment of solvent capsule-based healing for woven E-glass fibre-reinforced polymers

Véronique Michaud, Amaël Maximilien Cohades, Inès Richard, Erica Manfredi

Vacuum Assisted Resin Infusion Molding (VARIM) with low vacuum pressure difference was used to manufacture woven glass fibre-reinforced epoxy resin plates, with a fibre volume fraction of approx. 50 vol% and containing ethyl phenylacetate (EPA)-filled caps ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2015

Tensile elongation of unidirectional or laminated composites combining a brittle reinforcement with a ductile strain and strain-rate hardening matrix

Andreas Mortensen, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

We use the long-wavelength model of Hutchinson and Neale (1977) and Ghosh (1977) to estimate the uniform tensile elongation of two-phase composites deforming quasistatically according to the equistrain rule of mixtures, in which one phase is ductile while ...

Elsevier2014

Out of autoclave processing of ribbed parts: technical, economic and environmental assessment

Véronique Michaud, Rémy Teuscher, Robert Andrew Witik, Amaël Maximilien Cohades

2012