Modelling damage and failure in carbon/epoxy non-crimp fabric composites including effects of fabric pre-shear

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1983-2001

  Greve, L ^a   Pickett, A K ^b  

^a VOLKSWAGEN AG   (Germany)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Polymer matrix composites (PMC's); B. Strength; C. Computational modelling; D. Mechanical testing

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MODELING; FAILURE PREDICTION; FINITE ELEMENT CODE; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES (PMC);

ELASTOPLASTICITY; FABRICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL TESTING; PREFORMING; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MECHANICAL TESTS; PLASTICITY; PREFORMING; REINFORCED PLASTIC;

EID: 33749505893     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2005.12.012     Document Type: Article

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