The use of an energy-based criterion to determine optimum configurations of fibrous composites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1891-1899

  Barakat, S A ^a   Abu Farsakh, G A ^a  

^a JORDAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

C. Failure criterion; C. Laminates; Fibrous composites; Optimization; Strain energy

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; BORON; CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; EPOXY RESINS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; LINEAR PROGRAMMING; LOAD TESTING; STRAIN; STRESS ANALYSIS;

IN-PLANE LOADING;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

LAMINATE; LOADING; STRAIN; TESTING;

EID: 0032745032     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(99)00048-2     Document Type: Article

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