Delamination fracture toughness of woven-fabric composites under mixed-mode loading

AIAA journal

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 517-520

  Adeyemi, Nurudeen B ^a   Shivakumar, Kunigal N ^a   Avva, Vishnu S ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA A AND T STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION MOLDING; DELAMINATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FRACTURE TESTING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; LINEAR EQUATIONS; LOADS (FORCES); MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; MOLDING;

DELAMINATION RESISTANCE; MIXED MODE LOADING; WOVEN FABRIC COMPOSITES;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0033115904     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.747     Document Type: Article

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