Reliability of high performance fibre composites

Reliability Engineering and System Safety

Volumn 56, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 249-256

  Sentler, Lars ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; PRESTRESSING; RELIABILITY; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

RUPTURE STRENGTH;

FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 0031153389     PISSN: 09518320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0951-8320(96)00028-2     Document Type: Article

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