Orientation averaging for stiffness and thermal expansion of short fiber composites

Advanced Engineering Materials

Volumn 4, Issue 12, 2002, Pages 931-933

  Gusev, Andrei ^a   Heggli, Martin ^a   Lusti, Hans Rudolf ^a   Hine, Peter J ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INJECTION MOLDING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MORPHOLOGY; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; THERMAL EXPANSION;

SHORT FIBER COMPOSITES;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 0036955591     PISSN: 14381656     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/adem.200290008     Document Type: Article

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