Stiffness degradation under fatigue in multiaxially loaded non-crimped-fabrics

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 108-122

  Adden, Stephan ^a   Horst, Peter ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF BRAUNSCHWEIG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biaxiality; Composite fatigue; Experiments; Fea; Glass fibre

Indexed keywords

BIAXIALITY; BIAXIALLY LOADED; CLASSICAL LAMINATE THEORY; COMPOSITE FATIGUE; FEA; REPRESENTATIVE VOLUME ELEMENTS; STIFFNESS DEGRADATION;

DEGRADATION; FABRICS; GLASS; LAMINATES; STIFFNESS;

EXPERIMENTS;

EID: 70349980369     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2009.02.002     Document Type: Article

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