The behaviour of open and closed section carbon fibre composite beams subjected to constrained torsion

Composite Structures

Volumn 38, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 631-647

  Loughlan, J ^a   Ata, M ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TORSION TESTING; TORSIONAL STRESS; WALLS (STRUCTURAL PARTITIONS);

WARPING RIGIDITIES;

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

COMPOSITES, CARBON-FIBRE-REINFORCED; THEORETICAL ANALYSIS; TORSIONAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031136280     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(97)00101-3     Document Type: Article

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