Modelling fatigue life of multidirectional GFRP laminates under constant amplitude loading with artificial neural networks

Advanced Composites Letters

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 43-51

  Vassilopoulos, Anastasios P ^a   Georgopoulos, Efstratios F ^b,c   Dionysopoulos, Vasileios ^c  

^a TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^c TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF KALAMATA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Composites; Constant amplitude; Fatigue; Life prediction; S N curves

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; LAMINATES; NEURAL NETWORKS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

COMPOSITE LAMINATES; CONSTANT AMPLITUDE; LIFE PREDICTION; S-N CURVES;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

EID: 33749347355     PISSN: 09636935     EISSN: 2633366X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/096369350601500201     Document Type: Article

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