Residual stresses associated with post-cure shrinkage in GRP tubes

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 47-54

  Stone, M A ^a   Schwartz, I F ^a   Chandler, H D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WITWATERSRAND   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Composite tubes; Environmentally assisted cracking; Post cure; Residual stress; Shrinkage

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CURING; NUMERICAL METHODS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SHRINKAGE; TENSILE PROPERTIES; THERMAL EXPANSION; TUBES (COMPONENTS); WEATHERING;

ENVIRONMENTALLY ASSISTED CRACKING; POST CURE SHRINKAGE; RAYLEIGH-RITZ METHOD;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

COMPOSITES, GLASS-FIBRE-REINFORCED; CRACKING; LAMINATES, POLYESTER/VINYL-ESTER-RESIN; SHRINKAGE; STRESS;

EID: 0030911325     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(96)00108-X     Document Type: Article

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