Fatigue behaviour of multilayer braided fabric reinforced laminates

Polymers and Polymer Composites

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 73-81

  Huang, Zheng Ming ^a   Teng, X C ^b   Ramakrishna, S ^b  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAILURE ANALYSIS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; LOADS (FORCES); MULTILAYERS; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

CROSS-SECTIONS; FAILURE MODES; FATIGUE LOADS; FIBER ORIENTATIONS;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 14044268040     PISSN: 09673911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096739110501300106     Document Type: Article

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