Modelling of a patch repair to a thin cracked sheet

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 62, Issue 2-3, 1999, Pages 267-289

  Umamaheswar, Turaga V R S ^a   Singh, Ripudaman ^a,b  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

^b Karta Technologies Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite repair patch; Non linear two And three dimensional FEM; Parametric study

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM SHEET; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; REPAIR; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

BONDED COMPOSITE PATCH REPAIRS;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032673561     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0013-7944(98)00088-5     Document Type: Article

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