Fatigue damage modeling of fibre-reinforced composite materials: Review

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 54, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 279-300

  Degrieck, Joris ^a   Van Paepegem, Wim ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

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EID: 0000233654     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1381395     Document Type: Article

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