Modal technique for three-dimensional global/local stress analysis of plain weave composites

Composite Structures

Volumn 39, Issue 1-2, 1997, Pages 145-156

  Srirengan, Kanthikannan ^a   Whitcomb, John ^a   Chapman, Clinton ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MODAL ANALYSIS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS; TEXTILES;

GLOBAL ANALYSIS; PLAIN WEAVE COMPOSITES;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

COMPOSITE PROPERTIES; COMPOSITES, WOVEN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031229552     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(97)00134-7     Document Type: Article

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