Experimental and numerical analyses on the stiffness of three-dimensional woven carbon preform reinforced cellular matrix composites

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 63, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1387-1392

  Xu, Wei ^a   Qiu, Yiping ^b   Wang, Youjiang ^c   Mohamed, Mansour H ^d  

^a Erwin Plant ^*  (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d TEX   (United States)

Author keywords

3 Dimensional reinforcement; Cellular matrix; Computational modeling; Foaming; Mechanical testing; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); ELASTIC MODULI; REDUCTION; STIFFNESS; TENSILE TESTING;

DENSITY REDUCTION;

NONMETALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

CARBON; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PREFORM; STIFFNESS; TENSILE PROPERTY; TESTING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL TEXTILE; WOVEN FABRIC;

EID: 0038684217     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0266-3538(03)00081-2     Document Type: Article

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