Fracture behaviour of composite maritime T-joints

Composite Structures

Volumn 75, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 339-350

  Li, H C H ^a   Dharmawan, F ^a   Herszberg, I ^b   John, S ^a  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Composite; Fracture; GFRP; Marine structure; T joint; VCCT

Indexed keywords

BOND STRENGTH (MATERIALS); COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; OCEAN STRUCTURES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRAIN RATE; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

COMPOSITE MARITIME T-JOINT; FRACTURE BEHAVIOUR; STRAIN ENERGY RELEASE RATE (SERR); VIRTUAL CRACK CLOSURE TECHNIQUE (VCCT);

JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

COMPOSITE; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FRACTURE; GLASS FIBER; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 33745753101     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.04.052     Document Type: Article

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