Initiation of a mode-II interlaminar crack from an insert film in the end-notched flexure composite specimen

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 263-272

  Todo, M ^a   Jar, P Y B ^b   Takahashi, K ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Fac Eng Info Technol   (Australia)

Author keywords

ENF; FE; Fibre composites; Interlaminar fracture; Mode II

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (MATERIALS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; STRESSES; VOLUME FRACTION;

CRACK TIP BLUNTNESS; END NOTCHED FLEXURE; INTERLAMINAR CRACK;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 0034140308     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(99)00119-0     Document Type: Article

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