Interlaminar fracture studies in Portugal: Past, present and future

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 27, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 767-773

  de Morais, A B ^a   Rebelo, C C ^b   de Castro, P M S T ^c   Marques, A T ^c   Davies, P ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

^d IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Double cantilever beam (DCB); End notched flexure (ENF); Interlaminar fracture; Multidirectional laminates; Unidirectional laminates

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FRACTURE TESTING; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; MECHANICAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; PLASTIC LAMINATES;

DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAMS; END LOADED SPLIT; END NOTCHED FLEXURE; FRACTURE TOUGHNESS MEASUREMENT; INTERLAMINAR FRACTURE; MULTIDIRECTIONAL LAMINATES; UNIDIRECTIONAL LAMINATES;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 4143078054     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-2695.2004.00744.x     Document Type: Article

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