Use of a rate-dependent continuum damage model to describe strain-softening in laminated composites

Computers and Structures

Volumn 58, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1083-1092

  Nemes, J A ^a   Speciel E ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; DELAMINATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; LOADS (FORCES); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRAIN; WAVE PROPAGATION;

CONTINUUM DAMAGE MODEL; STRAIN SOFTENING;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0030105720     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(95)00229-4     Document Type: Article

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