Drop-weight impact of plain-woven hybrid glass-graphite/toughened epoxy composites

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1090-1110

  Sevkat, Ercan ^a   Liaw, Benjamin ^b   Delale, Feridun ^b   Raju, Basavaraju B ^c  

^a NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b City College of New York   (United States)

^c US Army Tank Automotive Command   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Hybrid composites; B. Impact behavior; C. Finite element analysis (FEA); D. Ultrasonic

Indexed keywords

A. HYBRID COMPOSITES; B. IMPACT BEHAVIOR; C. FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA); COMPOSITE PANELS; D. ULTRASONIC; DAMAGE PATTERNS; DROP WEIGHT; DROP WEIGHT TESTS; DYNAMIC FORCES; DYNAMIC STRAIN; EPOXY COMPOSITE; EXPERIMENTAL MEASUREMENTS; FE-SIMULATION; HYBRID GLASS; IMPACT FORCE; INSTRON; LOW-VELOCITY; LS-DYNA; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENTS; PROGRESSIVE DAMAGE; ULTRASONIC C-SCAN; WOVEN COMPOSITE;

DROPS; GLASS; GRAPHITE; STRAIN; THREE DIMENSIONAL; ULTRASONICS; WEAVING; WELDS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 67651045846     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2009.04.028     Document Type: Article

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