Delamination: Laminate analysis and fracture mechanics

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 509-520

  Yin, W L ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Delamination; Interface crack; Laminated composites; Stress singularity

Indexed keywords

CRACK PROPAGATION; DEFORMATION; DELAMINATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE MECHANICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SHEAR STRESS; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

INTERFACIAL CRACKS; STRESS SINGULARITY;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0032047659     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1998.00059.x     Document Type: Article

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