Absence of a tough-brittle transition in the statistical fracture of unidirectional composite tapes under local load sharing

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 2 2, 2004, Pages

  Mahesh, S ^a   Phoenix, S L ^b  

^a LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; BRITTLENESS; COALESCENCE; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; DUCTILITY; FRACTURE; FUNCTIONS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY; STRUCTURAL LOADS; THEOREM PROVING;

COMPOSITE TAPES; LOAD SHARING; STATISTICAL FRACTURE; TOUGH-BRITTLE TRANSITION;

TAPES;

EID: 45849154564     PISSN: 1063651X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.026102     Document Type: Article

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