Influence of material orientation on crack tip stress singularity in orthotropic composites

Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1047-1056

  Yao, X F ^a   Meng, L B ^a   Yeh, H Y ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; STRESS ANALYSIS;

ELASTIC CRACK SOLUTIONS; PARAMETRIC EQUATIONS; REFLECTIVE CAUSTIC;

CRACKS;

EID: 25844513848     PISSN: 09650393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0965-0393/13/7/003     Document Type: Article

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