Constrained buckling tests show increasing compressive strain to failure with increasing strain gradient

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 28, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 959-964

  Wisnom, M R ^a   Atkinson, J W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buckling; Compressive failure; Flexural failure; Size effects; Strain gradient

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; BUCKLING; COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EPOXY RESINS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; ROTATION; STRAIN;

CONSTRAINED BUCKLING TESTS; STRAIN GRADIENTS;

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 0031377408     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(97)00067-5     Document Type: Article

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