On the transverse cracking and stiffness degradation of aged angle-ply laminates

Materials Letters

Volumn 60, Issue 21-22, 2006, Pages 2561-2564

  Tounsi, A ^a   Amara, K H ^a   Benzair, A ^a   Megueni, A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIDI BEL ABBES   (Algeria)

Author keywords

Angle ply laminates; Hygrothermal effect; Stiffness reduction; Stress perturbation function; Transverse cracking

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; DEGRADATION; STIFFNESS; STRESSES;

ANGLE-PLY LAMINATES; HYGROTHERMAL EFFECTS; STIFFNESS REDUCTIONS; STRESS PERTURBATION FUNCTIONS; TRANSVERSE CRACKING;

WOOD LAMINATES;

DEGRADATION; LAMINATES; STIFFNESS; STRESSES; WOOD;

EID: 33745699381     PISSN: 0167577X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matlet.2006.01.037     Document Type: Article

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