Airbag fabric material modeling of nylon and polyester fabrics using a very simple neural network architecture

Journal of Applied Polymer Science

Volumn 60, Issue 13, 1996, Pages 2329-2338

  Keshavaraj, Ramesh ^a,c   Tock, Richard W ^a   Haycook, Dan ^b  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b Hoechst Celanese Corporation   (United States)

^c Milliken and Co   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMOBILE AIR BAGS; CALENDERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATERIALS TESTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL PERMEABILITY; NEURAL NETWORKS; NYLON POLYMERS; POLYESTERS; STRAIN; STRESSES;

AIRBAG FABRIC MATERIAL; BIAXIAL STRESS STRAIN RELATIONSHIPS; BLISTER INFLATION TECHNIQUE; CAUSE EFFECT PATTERN;

AUTOMOBILE FABRICS;

EID: 0030165871     PISSN: 00218995     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1097-4628(19960627)60:13<2329::aid-app4>3.0.co;2-g     Document Type: Article

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