Buckling, post-buckling and delamination propagation in debonded composite laminates Part 2: Numerical applications

Composite Structures

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 131-146

  Wang, S ^a   Zhang, Y ^b  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Doosan Babcock Energy Limited   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buckling; Delamination; Energy release rates; Interface springs; Post buckling; Spline finite strip

Indexed keywords

COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); CRACK PROPAGATION; DELAMINATION; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SPLINES; STEEL SHEET; STRIP METAL;

B SPLINES; COMPOSITE LAMINATES; DELAMINATION PROPAGATIONS; ENERGY RELEASE RATES; INTERFACE SPRINGS; NUMERICAL APPLICATIONS; POST-BUCKLING;

BUCKLING;

BUCKLING; COMPOSITE; COMPRESSION; DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LAMINATE;

EID: 56949099190     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2008.02.012     Document Type: Article

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