Rate dependence of mode I fracture behaviour in carbon-fibre/epoxy composite laminates

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 58, Issue 3-4, 1998, Pages 591-602

  Kusaka, Takayuki ^a   Hojo, Masaki ^b   Mai, Yiu Wing ^c   Kurokawa, Tomoaki ^d   Nojima, Taketoshi ^b   Ochiai, Shojiro ^b  

^a Hyogo Prefectural Institute of Industrial Research Technical Center for Machinery and Metals   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d SETSUNAN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; CRACK PROPAGATION; DELAMINATION; EPOXY RESINS; FRACTURE TESTING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; IMPACT TESTING; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

KINETIC ENERGY; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SPLIT HOPKINSON PRESSURE BAR (SHPB) TESTS; WEDGE INSERT FRACTURE (WIF)METHOD;

PLASTIC LAMINATES;

COMPOSITES, CARBON-FIBRE-REINFORCED; DELAMINATION; LAMINATES; TESTING, IMPACT;

EID: 0032030133     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(97)00176-0     Document Type: Article

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