The relationship between critical strain energy release rate and fracture mode in multidirectional carbon-fiber/epoxy laminates

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn 1285, Issue , 1997, Pages 283-304

  Trakas, Konstantinos ^a   Kortschot, Mark T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Composite materials; Delamination (materials); Fractography; Fracture (materials); Fracture modes; Interlaminar fracture; Multidirectional laminates; Plastic zone size; Plasticity; Strain energy release rate

Indexed keywords

DELAMINATION; FRACTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRAIN RATE; SURFACES; BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; MECHANICAL TESTING;

CARBON FIBER EPOXY LAMINATES; CRITICAL STRAIN ENERGY RELEASE RATE; FRACTURE MODES; INTERLAMINAR FRACTURE; MULTIDIRECTIONAL LAMINATES; CANTILEVER BEAMS; FLEXURE TESTING; FRACTOGRAPHS; INTERLAMINAR TOUGHNESS; PLASTIC ZONE SIZE; PLY ORIENTATION;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0030609352     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1520/stp19933s     Document Type: Article

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