Unstable crack advance across a regular array of short fibers in brittle matrix

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 711-717

  Qiao, Yu ^a   Kong, Xinguo ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Short fiber composites; B. Fracture toughness; C. Failure criterion; C. Fiber bridging

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; CRACK INITIATION; INTERNAL FRICTION; VOLUME FRACTION;

FRACTURE RESISTANCE;

NATURAL FIBERS;

CRACKING; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FRACTURE; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; TOUGHNESS;

EID: 0742284996     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2003.07.001     Document Type: Article

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