The nonlinear prebuckling response of short thin-walled laminated composite cylinders in bending

Composite Structures

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 309-324

  Fuchs, H P ^a   Hyer, M W ^b  

^a GENERAL MOTORS CORPORATION   (United States)

^b Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BOUNDARY LAYERS; BUCKLING; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; CYLINDERS (SHAPES); DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; FINITE DIFFERENCE METHOD; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

AXIAL COMPRESSION PROBLEM; LAMINATED COMPOSITE CYLINDERS; NONLINEAR PREBUCKLING RESPONSE; POISSON RATIO;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0030106971     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0263-8223(95)00152-2     Document Type: Article

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