Compressive failure analysis of non-crimp fabric composites with large out-of-plane misalignment of fiber bundles

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 36, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 1030-1046

  Joffe, Roberts ^a   Mattsson, David ^a   Modniks, Janis ^b   Varna, Janis ^a  

^a LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

Author keywords

A: Layered structures; B: Elasticity; B: Mechanical properties; C: Computational modelling

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPACTION; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; PLASTICITY;

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; FAILURE INITIATION; LAYERED STRUCTURE; MICROBUCKLING;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 18844438346     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2004.10.028     Document Type: Conference Paper

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