Flexural-torsional buckling of pultruded fiber reinforced plastic composite I-beams: Experimental and analytical evaluations

Composite Structures

Volumn 38, Issue 1-4, 1997, Pages 241-250

  Davalos, Julio F ^a   Qiao, Pizhong ^a   Salim, Hani A ^b  

^a West Virginia University   (United States)

^b University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING STRENGTH; BUCKLING; ELASTICITY; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; STRAIN GAGES; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TORSION TESTING;

PULTRUDED FIBER REINFORCED PLASTIC COMPOSITE I BEAMS; RAYLEIGH RITZ METHOD;

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

BUCKLING; COMPOSITES, FIBRE-REINFORCED; TORSIONAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 0042226022     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(97)00059-7     Document Type: Article

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