Initiation and propagation toughness of delamination crack under an impact load

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1998, Pages 1773-1787

  Kumar, Prashant ^a   Kishore, N N ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

A. delamination; A. dynamic fracture; A. fracture toughness; B. Fibre reinforced composite material; C. finite elements

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DELAMINATION; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

INTERLAMINAR CRACK; INTERLAMINAR DYNAMIC FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; J INTEGRAL;

FRACTURE TOUGHNESS;

EID: 0032181213     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5096(98)00047-7     Document Type: Article

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