Static indentation and impact behaviour of GRP pultruded sections

Composite Structures

Volumn 39, Issue 3-4, 1997, Pages 223-228

  Found, M S ^a   Holden, G J ^a,b   Swamy, R N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b BAE SYSTEMS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; CRACK PROPAGATION; IMPACT TESTING; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; POLYESTERS; PULTRUSION; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BACKFACE CRACKING; DROPWEIGHT IMPACT TESTING; FLEXURAL STIFFNESS; STATIC INDENTATION TESTING;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

COMPOSITES, GLASS-FIBRE-REINFORCED; DAMAGE; LOADING; TESTING, IMPACT;

EID: 0031278207     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(97)00116-5     Document Type: Article

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