Effective elastic moduli of two-phase transversely isotropic composites with aligned clustered fibers

Acta Mechanica

Volumn 145, Issue 1-4, 2000, Pages 65-93

  Bhattacharyya, A ^a   Lagoudas, D C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; POISSON DISTRIBUTION; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; VOLUME FRACTION;

CONTINUOUS FIBERS; TRANSVERSELY ISOTROPIC COMPOSITES;

FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 0034481911     PISSN: 00015970     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01453645     Document Type: Article

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