Table 6 The effect of the lay-up technique on the relative damage measured through the tensile test.

From: Quasistatic tensile and flexural behaviors of fiber metal laminates after subjecting to uniaxial tensile impact loading

Specimen

Relative peak load (%)

Relative displacement corresponding to peak load (%)

Relative max. displacement (%)

Relative tensile stiffness (%)

[Al/0°/90°/0°/Al] hand lay-up

− 60.13

2.14

− 35.3

− 60.96

[Al/0°/90°/0°/Al] sandwich

− 62.41

7.16

14.33

− 64.92

[0°/90°/0°] hand lay-up

− 51.79

75.89

62.59

− 72.59

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