Structural buckling of polymer matrix composites due to reduced stiffness from fire damage

Composite Structures

Volumn 69, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 65-75

  Gu, Pei ^a,b   Asaro, R J ^b  

^a MSC SOFTWARE CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Functionally graded materials; Material degradation; Structural buckling

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; BUCKLING; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DATA ACQUISITION; DEGRADATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATRIX ALGEBRA; PRODUCT DESIGN; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TESTING;

COMPRESSIVE LOADING; OUT-OF-PLANE DIRECTION; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

FIRES;

BUCKLING; COMPOSITE;

EID: 11244320560     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2004.05.016     Document Type: Article

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