A technological solution to the testing and data reduction of single fibre fragmentation tests

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 29, Issue 9-10, 1998, Pages 1099-1109

  Tripathi, D ^a,b   Lopattananon, N ^a   Jones, F R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b RAPRA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cumulative stress transfer function; Kelly Tyson model; Single fibre fragmentation test

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; CARBON FIBERS; COMPUTER GRAPHICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DATA REDUCTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRAIN; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS;

CUMULATIVE STRESS TRANSFER FUNCTION; KELLY-TYSON MODEL; SINGLE-FIBER FRAGMENTATION TESTS;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 0031630326     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(98)00076-1     Document Type: Article

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