Fatigue life prediction of thick-section S2-Glass/Vinyl-ester composites under flexural loading

Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology, Transactions of the ASME

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 402-408

  Mahfuz, Hassan ^a   Zaman, Kamruz ^a   Haque, Anwarul ^a   Foy, Costee ^a   Mohamed, Hisham ^a   Jeelani, Shaik ^a  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULI; ESTERS; FATIGUE TESTING; GLASS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

FATIGUE MODULUS; FLEXURAL LOADING;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 0034295803     PISSN: 00944289     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1289023     Document Type: Article

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