A direct micromechanical approach toward the development of quadratic stress gradient failure criteria for textile composites

Journal of Composite Materials

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2007, Pages 1917-1937

  Karkkainen, Ryan L ^a,b   Sankar, Bhavani V ^a   Tzeng, Jerome T ^b  

^a J Crayton Pruitt Family Department of Biomedical Engineering   (United States)

^b U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Finite element analysis.; Strength; Textile composites

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE MATERIALS; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

DIRECT MICROMECHANICAL METHOD (DMM); TEXTILE COMPOSITES;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 35348832488     PISSN: 00219983     EISSN: 1530793X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021998307069905     Document Type: Article

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