Draping of woven fabric preforms and prepregs for production of polymer composite components

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 757-765

  Wang, J ^a   Paton, R ^b   Page, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Department of Aerospace Engineering   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT FABRICS; AIRCRAFT PARTS AND EQUIPMENT; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; ORGANIC POLYMERS; YARN;

DRAPING; POLYMER COMPOSITE; WOVEN FABRICS; YARN SLIPPAGE;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0032673858     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1359-835X(98)00187-0     Document Type: Article

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