Progressive fracture in composite structures

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1285, Issue , 1997, Pages 70-84

  Chamis, Christos C ^a,c   Murthy, Papper L N ^a   Minnetyan, Levon ^b  

^a NASA GLENN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Wallace H Coulter School of Engineering   (United States)

^c American ASTM D01 Standardization Committee   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumulation; Beams; Buckling resistance; Collapse; Damage initiation; Fatigue (materials); Fracture (materials); Fracture modes; Frequencies; Growth; Hygrothermal environment; Panels; Plates; Propagation; Shells; Stability; Strain energy release rates

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

COMPOSITE MECHANICS; DAMAGE INITIATION; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITE; COMPUTATIONAL SIMULATION;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FRACTURE;

EID: 0030609340     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp19922s     Document Type: Article

References (11)

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