Tailored fibre placement to minimise stress concentrations

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 28, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 619-625

  Crothers, P J ^a,d   Drechsler, K ^b   Feltin, D ^c   Herszberg, I ^a   Kruckenberg, T ^d  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b DAIMLER AG   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE OF POLYMER RESEARCH DRESDEN   (Germany)

^d Coop Res Ctr Adv Compos S ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Composite materials; Fibre placement; Fibre preforming

Indexed keywords

FIBRE PREFORMING; RESIN FILM INFUSION; STRENGTH TO WEIGHT CHARACTERISTICS; TAILORED FIBRE PLACEMENT; VACUUM INJECTION MOULDING;

ANISOTROPY; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INJECTION MOLDING; STRESS CONCENTRATION; TENSILE TESTING;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 0030695773     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(97)00022-5     Document Type: Article

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