Modeling the compressive properties of glass fiber reinforced epoxy foam using the analysis of variance approach

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 66, Issue 13, 2006, Pages 2126-2134

  Alonso, M V ^a   Auad, M L ^a   Nutt, S R ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Foam; A. Glass fibres; B. Mechanical properties; C. Statistical analysis

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIBILITY; COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; EPOXY RESINS; FOAMED PLASTICS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

COMPOSITE FOAMS; COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES; GLASS FIBER REINFORCED EPOXY;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

COMPRESSIVE PROPERTY; DENSITY; EPOXY RESIN; FIBER LENGTH; FOAM; GLASS FIBER; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MORPHOLOGY; WEIGHT;

EID: 33746101084     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2005.12.016     Document Type: Article

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