Robust design of the iosipescu shear test specimen for composites

Journal of Testing and Evaluation

Volumn 24, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 1-11

  Chiang, Y J ^a  

^a Robust Engineering Company   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite materials; Finite element methods; Shear tests; Statistical design of experiments

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; BORON; ELASTIC MODULI; EPOXY RESINS; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GLASS FIBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR STRESS; STATISTICAL METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

BORON FIBER REINFORCED ALUMINUM; DESIGN FACTORS; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED EPOXY; IOSIPESCU SHEAR TEST METHOD; NOTCHED CROSS SECTIONS; ORTHOTROPY; STATISTICAL DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0029697944     PISSN: 00903973     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jte11282j     Document Type: Article

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