Concepts for bridged Mode II delamination cracks

Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids

Volumn 47, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 1265-1300

  Massabo, Roberta ^a   Cox, Brian N ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ROCKWELL SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ASYMPTOTIC STABILITY; BENDING (DEFORMATION); CRACK PROPAGATION; DELAMINATION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); POLYMERS; REINFORCED PLASTICS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

STITCHED LAMINATES; THROUGH-THICKNESS REINFORCEMENTS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0033553063     PISSN: 00225096     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-5096(98)00107-0     Document Type: Article

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