The initial post-buckling behavior of face-sheet delaminations in sandwich composites

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 70, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 191-199

  Kardomateas, G A ^a   Huang, H ^a  

^a Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CRACKS; DELAMINATION; GROWTH (MATERIALS); INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

SANDWICH COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0037365226     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1532320     Document Type: Article

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