Interlaminar cracking of composite shells

Theoretical and Applied Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-20

  Theotokoglou, E E ^a  

^a NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN RATE; UNDERWATER STRUCTURES;

COMPOSITE SHELLS; INTERLAMINAR CRACKING;

SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 0031139322     PISSN: 01678442     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0167-8442(97)00003-7     Document Type: Article

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