Compressive response of Z-pinned woven glass fiber textile composite laminates: Experiments

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 69, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 2331-2337

  Huang, Hsengji ^a   Waas, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Fibers; A. Laminate; A. Textile composites; B. Strength; C. Buckling

Indexed keywords

A. FIBERS; A. LAMINATE; A. TEXTILE COMPOSITES; B. STRENGTH; C. BUCKLING;

EXPERIMENTS; FIBERS; GLASS FIBERS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STIFFNESS; TEXTILES; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

WEAVING;

BUCKLING; COMPRESSIVE PROPERTY; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GLASS FIBER; LAMINATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH; WEAVE;

EID: 70349427462     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.12.014     Document Type: Article

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