The compressive strength of highly-aligned carbon-fibre/epoxy composites produced by pultrusion

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 525-533

  Creighton, C J ^a   Clyne, T W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSION TESTING; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EPOXY RESINS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MICROSTRUCTURE; PULTRUSION; STRESS CONCENTRATION; VOLUME FRACTION;

HIGHLY-ALIGNED CARBON-FIBER/EPOXY COMPOSITES;

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

CARBON FIBER; COMPRESSIVE PROPERTY; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE;

EID: 0034075323     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(99)00153-0     Document Type: Article

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