Delamination and failure at ply drops in carbon fiber laminates under static and fatigue loading

Collection of Technical Papers - 44th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting

Volumn 19, Issue , 2006, Pages 14522-14535

  Samborsky, Daniel D ^a,b   Avery, Darrell P ^a,b   Agastra, Pancasatya ^a,b   Mandell, John F ^a,b  

^a Montana State University   (United States)

^b 306 Cobleigh Hall   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBER LAMINATES; INTERLAMINAR TOUGHNESS; PLY DROPS;

CARBON FIBERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DELAMINATION; GLASS FIBERS; STRAIN; TURBOMACHINE BLADES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 34250699967     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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