Prediction of the tensile stiffness of weft knitted fabric composites based on X-ray tomography images

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 311-325

  Pandita, Surya ^a   Verpoest, Ignaas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Knitted fabrics

Indexed keywords

MICROSTRUCTURE; STIFFNESS; TENSILE PROPERTIES; X RAYS;

TENSILE STIFFNESS;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

KNITTED FABRIC; MICROSTRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; ORIENTATION; REINFORCED FABRIC; TENSILE PROPERTY; WEFT KNITTING;

EID: 0037292455     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(02)00253-1     Document Type: Article

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