Mechanism of stress transfer in a single wood fibre-LDPE composite by means of electronic laser speckle interferometry

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 37, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1406-1412

  Sretenovic, Aleksandra ^a   Müller, Ulrich ^a   Gindl, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

Author keywords

A. Polymer matrix composites; B. Stress transfer; Electronic laser speckle interferometry

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; NATURAL FIBERS; WOOD;

ELECTRONIC LASER SPECKLE INTERFEROMETRY; POLYMER-MATRIX COMPOSITES; STRESS TRANSFER;

LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES;

INTERFEROMETRY; LASERS; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENE; WOOD FIBERS;

EID: 33746349284     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2005.06.018     Document Type: Article

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