Designing with 4-step braided fabric composites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 623-634

  Pandey, Ramesh ^a,b   Hahn, H T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Struct Res and Anal Corporation   (United States)

Author keywords

4 step braided composites; Elastic properties; Micromechanics model

Indexed keywords

CALCULATIONS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; POLYMERS; STIFFNESS MATRIX; VOLUME FRACTION;

BRAIDED FABRIC COMPOSITES; FIBER INCLINATION MODEL; ISO STRAIN; MANUFACTURING PARAMETERS; PITCH LENGTH; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENT; YARN CRIMP;

FABRICS;

BRAIDED-FABRIC-REINFORCED; COMPOSITE PROPERTIES; COMPOSITES; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TESTING;

EID: 0030153215     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0266-3538(96)00042-5     Document Type: Article

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