Fatigue analysis of cracked thick aluminum plate bonded with composite patches

Composite Structures

Volumn 64, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 79-90

  Tsai, Gwo Chung ^a   Shen, Shyan Bob ^b  

^a NATIONAL ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Chang Shan Inst of Sci Technol   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fatigue life; FEM; Repaired composite patches; Stress intensity factor

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; ALUMINUM; CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); STRESS ANALYSIS; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS;

ALUMINUM PLATES; COMPOSITE PATCHES;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

AIRCRAFT; FATIGUE; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; LIFE PREDICTION; METAL; REPAIR;

EID: 1142281087     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(03)00216-2     Document Type: Article

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