Damage evolution in center-holed glass/polyester composites under quasi-static loading using time/frequency analysis of acoustic emission monitored waveforms

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1366-1375

  Loutas, T H ^a,b   Kostopoulos, V ^a,b   Ramirez Jimenez, C ^c   Pharaoh, M ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composites; D. Acoustic emission; Damage; Signal processing; Wavelet analysis

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC EMISSIONS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; GLASS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TENSILE TESTING; WAVEFORM ANALYSIS;

CENTER-HOLED GLASS/POLYESTER COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DAMAGE EVOLUTION MONITORING; QUASI-STATIC LOADING;

POLYESTERS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; COMPOSITE; GLASS; LOADING (TESTING); POLYESTER;

EID: 33646568461     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2005.09.011     Document Type: Article

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