Through-the-thickness tensile strength of textile composites

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1274, Issue , 1996, Pages 218-238

  Jackson, Wade C ^a   Ifju, Peter G ^b  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Braids; Carbon epoxy; Composite materials; Curved beam; Delamination; Design; Moir interferometry; Testing; Textile composites; Through the thickness tensile strength; Weaves

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; CRACKS; DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; DESIGN; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); INTERFEROMETRY; MECHANICAL TESTING; STRESSES; TENSILE STRENGTH; TEXTILES;

BENDING MOMENT; CURVED BEAM TEST METHOD; OUT OF PLANE TENSILE STRESSES; PREPREG TAPES; RADIAL CRACK FORMATION; TEXTILE COMPOSITE; THREE DIMENSIONAL WEAVES; THROUGH THE THICKNESS DEFORMATION; THROUGH THE THICKNESS TENSILE STRENGTH; TWO DIMENSIONAL BRAIDS;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 0030205913     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp16547s     Document Type: Article

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