Computational Modelling and Experimental Techniques for Fibre Metal Laminate Structural Analysis: A Comprehensive Review

This article reported a comprehensive review of computational modelling and analysis of fibre metal laminates (FMLs), including the experimental techniques. The research is relevant to the metal (aluminium) stacked in the advanced fibres (Glass/Carbon/Kevlar) reinforced with epoxy matrix, and composite behaviour is discussed in detail. The discussion also includes damages like delamination on the bonds' responses (frequency and static/dynamic deflections). The metal-bonded composite has shown tremendous potential in the transportation industries without increasing the weight penalties in the overall structure. This review focuses on recently devised technologies for making FML components, with brief overviews of other working parameters. A complete outline of the historical background and contemporary advances of FMLs includes the categories, sheet production procedures, benefits and drawbacks. Moreover, the forming technologies are discussed, indicating their promising options for the large-volume manufacturing of intricate shape components of FML. The fracture and flaws in the fabrications of FML, including the complexities available in the earlier studies, are surveyed comprehensively. Finally, state-of-the-art research on the numerical methodologies of the FML structural modelling using different theoretical approaches and experimental verifications is provided in detail.