Approximate upper and lower bounds for the strength of unidirectional composites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 89-96

  Wada, Atsushi ^a   Fukuda, Hiroshi ^a  

^a TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Comparison with experiment; Monte Carlo simulation; Parametric study; Rosen model; Shear lag analysis; Stress concentration factor; Unidirectional composites; Weibull distribution; Zweben model

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY; SHEAR STRESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

LOCAL LOAD SHARING RULE; SHEAR-LAG ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION FACTOR; UNIDIRECTIONAL COMPOSITES;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

COMPOSITE; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FIBER-MATRIX INTERFACE;

EID: 0032948207     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(98)00052-9     Document Type: Article

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