The effect of crack-face contact on fiber/matrix debonding in transverse tensile loading

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 523-532

  Varna, Janis ^a   Paris, Federico ^b   Del Cano, Juan Carlos ^c  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SEVILLE   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALLADOLID   (Spain)

Author keywords

Contact zone; Crack closure technique; Fracture toughness; Interface crack; Transverse loading

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

DEBONDING; FIBER MATRIX INTERFACE; TENSILE LOADING;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

COMPOSITES, FIBRE-REINFORCED; FIBRE/MATRIX INTERFACE; SHEAR PROPERTIES; TENSILE PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031147736     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(96)00175-3     Document Type: Article

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