Process monitoring of aluminum-foam sandwich structures based on thermoplastic fibre-metal laminates using fibre Bragg gratings

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 65, Issue 3-4, 2005, Pages 669-676

  Kuang, K S C ^a,c   Zhang, L ^b   Cantwell, W J ^a   Bennion, I ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

A. Layered structures; Fibre Bragg gratings

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; CRYSTALLIZATION; DIFFERENTIAL SCANNING CALORIMETRY; FIBER BRAGG GRATINGS; MELTING; METALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES; POLYPROPYLENES; RESIDUAL STRESSES; SOLIDIFICATION; SUPERCONDUCTING TRANSITION TEMPERATURE; THERMOPLASTICS;

FABRICATION PROCESS; FIBRE-METAL LAMINATE (FML); POLYMERIC MATRIX; WAVELENGTH SHIFT;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

CARBON FIBER; COMPOSITE PROPERTY; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; LAMINATE; THERMOPLASTIC FIBER;

EID: 11344276864     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2004.09.005     Document Type: Article

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