Estimation of laminate stiffness reduction due to cracking of a transverse ply by employing crack initiation-and propagation-based master curves

Mechanics of Composite Materials

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 441-450

  Andersons, J ^a   Sparnins E ^a   Rubenis, O ^a   Joffe, R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LATVIA   (Latvia)

^b LULEÅ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Intralaminar cracking; Laminate; Polymer matrix composite; Stiffness

Indexed keywords

LAMINATED COMPOSITES; LAMINATES; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; STIFFNESS; STIFFNESS MATRIX;

CRACK DENSITY; CRACK INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; CRACKING MODEL; INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; INTRALAMINAR CRACKINGS; LAMINATE STIFFNESS; MASTER CURVE APPROACH; TENSILE LOADING;

CRACKS;

EID: 57349090100     PISSN: 01915665     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11029-008-9039-4     Document Type: Article

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