Viscoelastic interlaminar shear modulus of fibre reinforced composites

Composite Structures

Volumn 75, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 185-191

  Chan, A ^a   Liu, X L ^b   Chiu, W K ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Cooperative Research Centre for Advanced Composite Structures Limited ^*  (Australia)

Author keywords

Composite material properties; Interlaminar shear modulus; Prony series; Viscoelastic material model

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CREEP TESTING; ELASTIC MODULI; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; THERMAL EFFECTS; VISCOELASTICITY;

INTERLAMINAR SHEAR MODULUS; MODIFIED IOSIPESCU SHEAR TEST (MIST); PRONY SERIES; VISCOELASTIC MATERIAL MODEL;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

CREEP; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; INTERLAMINAR PROPERTY; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PREPREG; SHEAR PROPERTY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TESTING; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 33745747394     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.04.058     Document Type: Article

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