Tear propagation of a high-performance airship envelope material

Journal of Aircraft

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 1546-1553

  Maekawa, Shoji ^a,d,e   Shibasaki, Kouichi ^b,f   Kurose, Toyotoshi ^b,f   Maeda, Toshiyuki ^b,f   Sasaki, Yoshitaka ^b,f   Yoshino, Tatsuya ^c,g  

^a JAPAN AEROSPACE EXPLORATION AGENCY   (Japan)

^b KAWASAKI HEAVY INDUSTRIES LTD   (Japan)

^c Taiyo Kogyo Corporation   (Japan)

^d Department of Mechanical Engineering ^*

^e SHIZUOKA INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f Engineering Division   (Japan)

^g Advanced Structures Research and Development Department

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRSHIPS; TENSILE STRENGTH; TENSILE STRESS; TENSILE TESTING;

BIAXIAL STRESS; BIAXIAL TENSILE TESTS; DESIGN CRITERIA; EMPIRICAL EQUATIONS; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; PRESSURIZED CYLINDER; STRATOSPHERIC PLATFORMS; TEAR PROPAGATION;

STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

EID: 54549096949     PISSN: 00218669     EISSN: 15333868     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.32264     Document Type: Article

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