Fracture mechanics analyses for skin-stiffener debonding

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 54, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 371-385

  Raju, I S ^a   Sistla, R ^a   Krishnamurthy, T ^a  

^a ANALYTICAL SERVICES AND MATERIALS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRAIN; STRAIN RATE; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

CLOSED FORM EQUATIONS; ISOPARAMETRIC ELEMENTS; SHELL ANALYSIS; SKIN STIFFENER DEBONDING; STRAIN ENERGY RELEASE RATE; VIRTUAL CRACK CLOSURE TECHNIQUE;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 0030174418     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0013-7944(95)00184-0     Document Type: Article

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