Charpy impact damage behaviour of single and multi-delaminated hybrid composite beam structures

Materials and Design

Volumn 31, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 3653-3660

  Ghasemnejad, H ^a   Furquan, A S M ^a   Mason, P J ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Charpy; Composite; Delamination; Hybrid; Impact; LS DYNA

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPOSITE MICROMECHANICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DELAMINATION; LAMINATES; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; STEEL SHEET;

CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITES; CHARPY IMPACT; CHARPY IMPACT TESTS; COMPOSITE BEAM; COMPOSITE DELAMINATION; COMPOSITE MATERIAL STRUCTURE; DELAMINATED COMPOSITE BEAMS; ENERGY ABSORBING CAPABILITY; FINITE ELEMENT SOFTWARE; GLASS/EPOXY; HYBRID COMPOSITES; HYBRID LAMINATES; LAYERED COMPOSITES; LS-DYNA;

CHARPY IMPACT TESTING;

EID: 77953257858     PISSN: 02613069     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2010.02.045     Document Type: Article

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