Experimental characterization of microscopic damage progress in quasi-isotropic CFRP laminates: Effect of interlaminar-toughened layers

Advanced Composite Materials

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 183-199

  Takeda, Nobuo ^a   Kobayashi, Satoshi ^a   Ogihara, Shinji ^b   Kobayashi, Akira ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

CFRP; Delamination; Energy release rate; Quasi isotropic laminates; Scanning acoustic microscopy; Transverse crack

Indexed keywords

EID: 3042914430     PISSN: 09243046     EISSN: 15685519     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/156855198X00138     Document Type: Article

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