Thickness effects on the compressive stiffness and strength of stitched composite laminates

Composite Structures

Volumn 66, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 479-486

  Gunnion, Andrew J ^a   Scott, Murray L ^b   Thomson, Rodney S ^b   Hachenberg, Dieter ^c  

^a RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Coop Res Ctr for Adv Comp Struct ^*  (Australia)

^c AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

THICKNESS EFFECTS; THICKNESS REINFORCEMENT;

STIFFNESS;

COMPOSITE;

EID: 4143060199     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2004.04.071     Document Type: Article

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