Maximal errors due to use of equivalent properties for sublaminates

AIAA journal

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 296-302

  Venkataraman, Satchi ^a   Haftka, Raphael T ^a   Johnson, Theodore F ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; ERROR ANALYSIS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; OPTIMIZATION; PLYWOOD; STIFFNESS; STRAIN MEASUREMENT; STRUCTURAL LOADS; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

ORTHOTROPIC PROPERTIES; SUBLAMINATES;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0034836211     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/2.1304     Document Type: Article

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