Variational approach to the stress-transfer problem through partially debonded interfaces in a three-phase composite

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 519-535

  Wu, W ^a   Jacobs, E ^a   Verpoest, I ^a   Varna, Janis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

A. Coating; B. Debonding; B. Interface; C. Finite element analysis; C. Stress transfer

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; SHEAR STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

AXIAL STRESS; COULOMB FRICTION LAW; DEBONDING; STRESS TRANSFER; THREE-PHASE COMPOSITES;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; STRESS;

EID: 0033103917     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(98)00097-9     Document Type: Article

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