Burst behaviour of ±75° filament-wound Kevlar/epoxy and carbon/epoxy tubes at high loading rates

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 56, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1151-1159

  Kaddour, A S ^a   Al Salehi, F A R ^a   Al Hassani, S T S ^a   Hinton, M J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b DRA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

75 KRP and CFRP tubes; Failure properties; Filament wound composites; Strain rate; Wrap wire gauge

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CRACK INITIATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; EPOXY RESINS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FIBERS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STIFFNESS; STRAIN GAGES; STRAIN RATE; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

BURST BEHAVIOUR; FILAMENT WOUND COMPOSITES; INTERNAL EXPLOSIVE PRESSURISATION TECHNIQUES; SURFACE CRACKING; WRAP WIRE GAUGE;

NONMETALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITES, ARAMID-FIBRE-REINFORCED; COMPOSITES, CARBON-FIBRE-REINFORCED; TESTING, BURST;

EID: 0030268175     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(96)00078-4     Document Type: Article

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