Through-thickness stress sensing of a carbon fiber polymer-matrix composite by electrical resistance measurement

Smart Materials and Structures

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 1320-1330

  Wang, Daojun ^a   Chung, D D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; STRESS ANALYSIS; SURFACE RESISTANCE;

SURFACE FIBERS; TRANSVERSE VOLUME RESISTANCE; VOLUME RESISTANCE;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 34547475547     PISSN: 09641726     EISSN: 1361665X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0964-1726/16/4/046     Document Type: Article

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