Raman spectroscopy for characterization of interfacial debonds between carbon fibers and polymer matrices

Composite Structures

Volumn 76, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 375-387

  Chaudhuri, Sanwat N ^a   Chaudhuri, Reaz A ^b   Benner, Robert E ^c   Penugonda, Madhu S ^c  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic stress field; Carbon epoxy composite; Interfacial debond nucleation; Interfacial debond propagation; Mixed mode; Raman spectroscopy

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; DEFORMATION; EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); POLYMERS; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STRESSES;

ASYMPTOTIC STRESS FIELD; CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITE; INTERFACIAL DEBOND NUCLEATION; INTERFACIAL DEBOND PROPAGATION;

NONMETALLIC MATRIX COMPOSITES;

BONDING; CARBON FIBER; DEFORMATION; FIBER-MATRIX INTERFACE; RAMAN SPECTROSCOPY; STRESS;

EID: 33748069153     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2005.05.009     Document Type: Article

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