Tensile fatigue performance of pultruded glass fiber reinforced polymer profiles

Composite Structures

Volumn 68, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 235-245

  Keller, Thomas ^a   Tirelli, Tommaso ^a   Zhou, Aixi ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Fatigue; GFRP; Profile; Pultruded shape; Pultrusion

Indexed keywords

ADHESION; BONDING; DEGRADATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; GLASS FIBERS; TENSILE STRENGTH;

FATIGUE CYCLES; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERS (GFRP); LOADING CYCLES; ULTIMATE TENSILE STRENGTH (UTS);

FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

FATIGUE; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; GLASS FIBER; PULTRUSION; TENSILE PROPERTY;

EID: 10944244658     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2004.03.021     Document Type: Article

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