Stress profiles and energy release rates around fiber breaks in a lamina with propagating zones of matrix yielding and debonding

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 869-885

  Beyerlein, Irene J ^a   Phoenix, S Leigh ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

2 D fiber composite; Energy release rates; Fiber and matrix stress distributions; Interfacial debond zone; Matrix plasticity

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; FRICTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PLASTICITY; SHEAR STRENGTH; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

FRICTIONAL SLIDING STRESS; QUADRATIC INFLUENCE SUPERPOSITION (QIS) TECHNIQUE;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

COMPOSITES, CARBON-FIBRE-REINFORCED; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; STRESS PROPERTIES;

EID: 0031214021     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(96)00178-9     Document Type: Article

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