A computer simulation for estimating lower bound fracture strength of composites using Weibull distribution

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 263-266

  Birgoren, Burak ^a   Dirikolu, M Husnu ^a  

^a KIRIKKALE UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

A. Carbon fibre; B. Mechanical properties; C. Computational modelling; C. Statistical properties methods; D. Mechanical testing

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; CARBON FIBERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; MECHANICAL TESTING; WEIBULL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; SIMULATION ERRORS; STATISTICAL PROPERTIES; STRAIN GAUGE;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 10444221825     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2003.11.002     Document Type: Article

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