Stability characteristics of composite panels with various cutout geometries

Composite Structures

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-31

  Bailey, R ^a   Wood, J ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; GEOMETRY; STABILITY; STRAIN; STRESSES;

BUCKLING STABILITY; COMPOSITE PANELS; EIGENVALUE BUCKLING; POSTBUCKLING;

STRUCTURAL PANELS;

EID: 0030149767     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0263-8223(96)00021-9     Document Type: Article

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