Delaminations at the free edge of a composite laminate

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 475-483

  Amrutharaj, Guru Swamy ^a   Lam, Khin Yong ^a   Cotterell, Brian ^b  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Angle ply laminates; Delaminations; Fracture process zone

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS; TENSILE TESTING;

ANGLE PLY LAMINATES; CONSTANT STRESS MODEL; FRACTURE PROCESS ZONE; FREE EDGE; INTERLAMINAR STRESSES; STRESS DISPLACEMENT RELATIONSHIP;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0029754537     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/1359-8368(96)00015-7     Document Type: Article

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