A method for calculating strain energy release rates in preliminary design of composite skin/stringer debonding under multiaxial loading

ASTM Special Technical Publication

Volumn , Issue 1383, 2000, Pages 105-128

  Krueger, Ronald ^a   Minguet, Pierre J ^b   O'Brien, T Kevin ^a  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Struct Technol R and D Grp B   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite materials; Delamination; Energy release rate; Finite element analysis; Fracture mechanics; Skin flange interface; Virtual crack closure technique

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038998924     PISSN: 00660558     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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