Deformation in viscoelastic sandwich composites subject to moisture diffusion

Composite Structures

Volumn 92, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 254-264

  Joshi, Nikhil ^a   Muliana, Anastasia ^a  

^a Texas AandM University   (United States)

Author keywords

Moisture diffusion; Sandwich composite; Viscoelastic

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS; COUPLED ANALYSIS; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FE ANALYSIS; FOAM CORE; LINEAR ELASTIC; MECHANICAL LOADING; MOISTURE CONCENTRATION; MOISTURE DIFFUSION; POLYMER FOAM CORE; POLYMERIC FOAMS; SANDWICH COMPOSITE; SANDWICH COMPOSITES; SANDWICH SYSTEM; TIME-DEPENDENT; TIME-DEPENDENT RESPONSE; VISCOELASTIC;

DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION; FOAMS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; POLYMERS; SKIN;

MOISTURE;

DEFORMATION; DIFFUSION; ELASTIC MODULUS; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LAMINATE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MOISTURE; STRESS-STRAIN PROPERTY; VISCOELASTICITY;

EID: 70349792223     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2009.07.021     Document Type: Article

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