Monitoring damage initiation and evolution in a filled polymeric material using nondestructive testing techniques

Computers and Structures

Volumn 76, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 57-65

  Liu, C T ^a  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRESS; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE MECHANICS; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; NONMETALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYMERS; RESIDUAL STRESSES; STRAIN RATE; VISCOELASTICITY;

DAMAGE INITIATION; REAL TIME RADIOGRAPHY;

CRACK INITIATION;

EID: 0033871672     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0045-7949(99)00144-3     Document Type: Article

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