Fracture toughness of thermoset composites reinforced by perfectly bonded impenetrable short fibers

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 71, Issue 18, 2004, Pages 2621-2633

  Qiao, Yu ^a   Kong, Xinguo ^a   Pan, Ernian ^a  

^a The University of Akron   (United States)

Author keywords

Brittle matrix; Cleavage cracking; Crack trapping effect; Fracture toughness; Short fiber reinforced composites

Indexed keywords

BRITTLENESS; CHEMICAL BONDS; CRACK PROPAGATION; ELASTICITY; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THERMOSETS;

CRACK TRAPPING; ELASTIC PROPERTIES;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

FRACTURE MECHANICS;

EID: 3042578776     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2004.02.007     Document Type: Article

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