Barely Visible Impact Damage Data Collected from the Literature

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Data used for barely visible impact damage (BVID) in continuous carbon fiber composites statistical meta-analysis. Data is from a review of the literature on BVID. Files include a key (1.1) to data tables (1.3-1.5) and a list of references (1.2) to accompany the citations of the data in the tables.

Lists of article citations that were reviewed that (2.2) cross section microstructure data that was not sufficient (due to limited area, resolution or quality of images) to make any significant determination as to delamination field macrostructure or (2.3) PMC impact damage discussion without impact cross section microstructure are also included with an accompanying reference list (2.1).