Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) solutions using remendable polymers

Society for Experimental Mechanics - SEM Annual Conference and Exposition on Experimental and Applied Mechanics 2010

Volumn 2, Issue , 2010, Pages 1501-1507

  Duenas, Terrisa ^a   Schütter, Jennifer ^a   Lacevic, Naida ^a   Jha, Akhilesh ^a   Chai, Karen ^a   Wudl, Fred ^b   Westcott Baker, Lucas ^b   Mal, Ajit ^c   Corder, Aaron ^d   Ooi, Teng K ^d  

^a NextGen Aeronautics Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d Missile Defense Agency   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM; CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE; COMPOSITE LAY-UP PROCESS; COMPOSITE MATRIX MATERIALS; COMPOSITE SAMPLES; CROSS-CUTTING TECHNOLOGY; FIBER COMPONENTS; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; GAS ENTRAPMENTS; IN-SITU; MATERIAL SYSTEMS; MATRIX CRACKING; MISSILE DEFENSE AGENCY; MISSILE STRUCTURE; NEAT POLYMER; NEXTGEN AERONAUTICS; PARTICLE COMPOSITES; POLYMER COMPOSITE; RESEARCH DEVELOPMENT; SANTA BARBARA; SCIENTISTS AND ENGINEERS; SHAPE-MEMORY PROPERTIES; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA; UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA , LOS ANGELES; US ARMY; VOID CONTENTS;

BALLISTIC MISSILES; BALLISTICS; CARBON FIBERS; FIBERS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MILITARY ROCKETS; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; POLYMERS;

POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES;

EID: 78049432332     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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