Determination of the critical crack length of notched weft-knitted glass fiber variable width composite plates

Composite Structures

Volumn 77, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 111-119

  Tercan, Mevlüt ^a   Asi, Osman ^a   Aktaş, Alaattin ^a  

^a USAK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Critical crack length; Glass fiber; Stress concentration; Textile composite; Weft knitting

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; CURVE FITTING; FABRICS; GLASS FIBERS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRESSES;

CRITICAL CRACK LENGTH (CCL); WEFT-KNITTED GLASS FIBER;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

CRACKING; FIBER LENGTH; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; GLASS FIBER; KNITTED FABRIC; STRESS; WEFT KNITTING;

EID: 33748804496     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.04.072     Document Type: Article

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