Compression, flexure and shear properties of a sandwich composite containing defects

Composite Structures

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 263-278

  Mouritz, A P ^a   Thomson, R S ^b  

^a AERO AND MAR RESEARCH LABORATORY   (Australia)

^b Coop Res Ctr for Adv Compos S ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); COMPRESSIVE STRESS; CRACKS; DEFECTS; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FOAMED PLASTICS; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; SHEAR STRESS; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

IMPACT DAMAGE; INTERFACIAL CRACK;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

DAMAGE; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; GLASS FIBER; IMPACT; MECHANICAL PROPERTY;

EID: 0033039143     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(98)00133-0     Document Type: Article

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