Fragmentation of Composite Material Plates Submitted to Impact Loading: Comparison between Numerical and Experimental Results

Key Engineering Materials

Volumn 144, Issue , 1998, Pages 75-88

  Belingardi, G ^a   Gugliotta, A ^a   Vadori, R ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Composites; Crashworthiness; Finite element method

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMPACT TESTING; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

FRAGMENTATION; SOFTWARE PACKAGE DYNA3D;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0031647741     PISSN: 10139826     EISSN: 16629795     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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