Interlaminar fracture behaviour of sandwich structures

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 27, Issue 3 PART A, 1996, Pages 165-173

  Papanicolaou, G C ^a   Bakos, D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Interlaminal fracture toughness; Sandwich structures; Strain rate

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FRACTURE TESTING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; STRAIN RATE;

CLASSICAL SIMPLE BEAM THEORY; MODE I INTERLAMINAR FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 0029732697     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1359-835X(95)00026-X     Document Type: Article

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