The influence of layers with low transverse stiffness on the contact response of composite half planes

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 331-343

  Zhang, Wang ^a   Binienda, Wieslaw K ^a   Pindera, Marek Jerzy ^b  

^a University of Akron   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Contact response; Honeycomb layers; Layered media

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FRICTION; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; INTEGRAL EQUATIONS; LOADS (FORCES); PLASTIC DEFORMATION; POLYNOMIALS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

CONTACT RESPONSE; HILBERT TRANSFORMS; HONEYCOMB LAYERS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0033076180     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(98)00076-1     Document Type: Article

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