Study of damage and crack in particulate composites

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 443-450

  Kwon, Y W ^a   Lee, J H ^a   Liu, C T ^b  

^a Naval Postgraduate School ^*  (United States)

^b AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. particle reinforcement; Crack; Damage; Initiation; Propagation

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; LOAD TESTING; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER); REINFORCEMENT;

PARTICULATE COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0031624185     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-8368(98)80002-4     Document Type: Article

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