Interlaminar stresses at the free corners of a laminate

Composite Structures

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 155-162

  Becker, Wilfried ^a   Jin, Peipeng ^a   Neuser, Petra ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS CONCENTRATION; THERMAL STRESS;

INTERLAMINAR STRESSES; STRESS LOCALIZATION;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

ANALYSIS; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FIBER-MATRIX INTERFACE; LAMINATE; STRESS;

EID: 0345240926     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(99)00019-7     Document Type: Article

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