Fatigue crack growth and life prediction of foam core sandwich composites unders flexural loading

Composite Structures

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 499-505

  Kulkarni, Nitin ^a   Mahfuz, Hassan ^a   Jeelani, Shaik ^a   Carlson, Leif A ^b  

^a TUSKEGEE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; CRACK PROPAGATION; EPOXY RESINS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GLASS FIBERS; POLYVINYL CHLORIDES; RESIN TRANSFER MOLDING; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

SANDWITCH PANELS;

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

COMPOSITE;

EID: 0037357441     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(02)00249-0     Document Type: Article

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