Fractography

Fractography is the study of the fracture surfaces of materials. Fractographic methods are routinely used to determine the cause of failure in engineering structures, especially in product failure and the practice of forensic engineering or failure analysis. In material science research, fractography is used to develop and evaluate theoretical models of crack growth behavior. The research group on fractography at ITA has been focusing its effort on fractographic analysis of carbon fiber/epoxy composite joints manufactured by different joining technologies and submitted to either static or cyclic loadings in order to better undestand the failure modes in such type of joints aiming applications at aeronautical composite structures.

Affiliated faculty

Geraldo Maurício Cândido (Associate Researcher, ITA)

Rita Sales Contini (Professor, FATEC-SJC)

Marcos Shiino (Professor, UNESP-SJC)

Mauricio V. Donadon (Professor, ITA)

Mariano Andrés Arbelo (Professor, ITA)

Flavio Bussamra (Professor, ITA)

Maria Odila Cioffi (Professor, FEG-UNESP)

Tanila Penteado de Faria G. Leal (Engineer, EMBRAER)

Viviane Jordão S. Prado (Engineer, EMBRAER)

Luciana Selmi Marques (Engineer, EMBRAER)

Paulo Roberto Zanella Pasquali (Engineer, EMBRAER)

Marcio Rogério Tosato (Enginner, EMBRAER)

Funding source

EMBRAER/FAPESP & CNPq, research projects entitled A numerical and experimental study on delamination in composites" and "Hypervelocity impact on nano-structured composites