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In this work, different approaches to fibre-metal laminates modelling are presented. Micromechanical, mesomechanical and macromechanical models are discussed. The application of these approaches for exemplary fibre-metal laminate made of aluminium and epoxy resin/glass fibre layers are shown. The classical laminate theory was used to obtain engineering constants for the macroscopic solid model and Puck criterion to obtain material data about epoxy resin/glass fibre layer. Various simulations using different simulation techniques were carried out in Simulia ABAQUS environment and results were compared with experimental data found in the literature. In conclusions, described approaches from the viewpoint of numerical simulation and experiment were evaluate. Research proves that mesoscopic (with distinguished layers of material) approach along with solid model gives the best results.

Although cooling at ambient temperature is widely used and is said to be safe and convenient, faster cooling may have an influence not only on the time of the manufacturing process but also on the mechanical response, especially the residual stress. The study aimed to investigate the influence of the cooling rate after curing on the mechanical response of filament-wound thick-walled carbon fiber reinforced polymer (CFRP) rings. Three cooling rates were taking into consideration: cooling with the oven, at room temperature, and in the water at 20 °C. The splitting method was used to examine the residual strains. In the radial compression test, the mechanical response was investigated between the rings with different cooling regimes. The FEM analysis of the compression test in elastic range was also performed. Both the splitting method and the radial compression test showed no significant difference in the mechanical response of the CFRP rings. The presented results showed that the fast-cooling rate slightly decreases the mechanical performance of the filament-wound rings.