Modelling orthotropic viscoelastic behaviour of composite laminates using a coincident element method

Polymers and Polymer Composites

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2003, Pages 669-677

  Nallainathan, L ^a   Liu, X L ^b   Chiu, W K ^a   Jones, R ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Advanced Composite Structures Ltd ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; VISCOELASTICITY;

COINCIDENT ELEMENT METHOD; ORTHOTROPIC COMPOSITES;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 0345377646     PISSN: 09673911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096739110301100806     Document Type: Article

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