delamination


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de·lam·i·na·tion

 (dē-lăm′ə-nā′shən)
n.
1. The act of splitting or separating a laminate into layers.
2. Embryology The splitting of the blastoderm into two layers of cells to form a gastrula.
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de•lam•i•na•tion

(diˌlæm əˈneɪ ʃən)

n.
1. a splitting apart into layers.
2. the separation of a primordial cell layer into two layers by a process of cell migration.
[1875–80]
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However, the heterogeneity of the composites structures leads to their weakness and facilitates the appearance of internal and external damage such as fibre breakage, matrix cracking, through-thickness hole, local delamination. Among these types of damage, delamination is especially easy to appear because the transverse tensile and interlaminar shear strengths are weak compared to the inplane strength [1].
Delamination is considered as a crack like entity between any two plies that can initiate and propagate in the composite laminates under different loading conditions [2, 3], and the situation may become severe since many structural parts may fail in the real-life applications under the cyclic fatigue loading.
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