Combined impact and fatigue of glass fiber reinforced composites

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 505-512

  Yuanjian, Tong ^a   Isaac, D H ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Glass fibers; B. Fatigue; Impact

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; GLASS FIBERS; MEASUREMENT THEORY; TENSILE STRENGTH;

CRITICAL IMPACT ENERGY; DAMAGED COMPOSITES; LOW VELOCITY IMPACT;

FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS;

EID: 40149090003     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2007.03.005     Document Type: Article

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