Transverse cracking in CFRP cross-ply laminates with interlaminar resin layers

Advanced Composite Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 347-363

  Ogihara, Shinji ^a   Takeda, Nobuo ^b   Kobayashi, Akira ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFRP; Composite material; Cross ply laminate; Energy release rate; Interlaminar resin layers; Interlaminar toughened laminate; Thermal residual stress; Transverse cracks; Young's modulus

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001256118     PISSN: 09243046     EISSN: 15685519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855198X00246     Document Type: Article

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