Buckling of composite beams with two non-overlapping delaminations: Lower and upper bounds

International Journal of Mechanical Sciences

Volumn 49, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 793-805

  Parlapalli, Madhusudhana R ^a   Shu, Dongwei ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Buckling; Composites; Delamination; Finite element analysis; Mode shapes

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

DIFFERENTIAL STRETCHING; MODE SHAPES; OVERLAPPING DELAMINATIONS;

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 34247860870     PISSN: 00207403     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2006.11.016     Document Type: Article

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