Investigation of glass-fibre reinforced polymers by polarisation-sensitive, ultra-high resolution optical coherence tomography: Internal structures, defects and stress

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 67, Issue 15-16, 2007, Pages 3051-3058

  Wiesauer, Karin ^a   Pircher, Michael ^b   Götzinger, Erich ^b   Hitzenberger, Christoph K ^b   Oster, Reinhold ^c   Stifter, David ^a  

^a Upper Austrian Research GmbH   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c EUROCOPTER DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (France)

Author keywords

A Glass fibres; A Polymer matrix composites; B Defects; C Residual stress; D Non destructive testing

Indexed keywords

CRACKS; DEFECTS; FRACTURE; NONDESTRUCTIVE EXAMINATION; OPTICAL TOMOGRAPHY; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; RESIDUAL STRESSES;

INTERNAL STRUCTURE; POLARISATION-SENSITIVE; TRANSVERSAL SCANNING; ULTRA-HIGH RESOLUTION;

GLASS FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS;

BIREFRINGENCE; COMPOSITE PROPERTY; CRACKING; DEFECT; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FRACTURE; GLASS FIBER; IMAGE ANALYSIS; STRESS;

EID: 35248864790     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2007.04.018     Document Type: Article

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