A review: Fibre metal laminates, background, bonding types and applied test methods

Materials and Design

Volumn 32, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 3671-3685

  Sinmazçelik, Tamer ^a,b   Avcu, Egemen ^a   Bora, Mustafa Özgür ^a   Çoban, Onur ^a  

^a KOCAELI UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b MATERIALS INSTITUTE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

B. Sandwich structures; C. Surface treatments; E. Mechanical

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT APPLICATIONS; AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES; ARAMID FIBRE; B. SANDWICH STRUCTURES; BONDING TYPE; C. SURFACE TREATMENTS; CARBON FIBRES; CLASSICAL TECHNIQUES; E. MECHANICAL; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH; FATIGUE RESISTANT; FIBRE METAL LAMINATES; FIBRE REINFORCED; HIGH STRENGTH GLASS; HYBRID COMPOSITE MATERIALS; IMPACT DAMAGES; MECHANICALLY BONDED; METALLIC LAYERS; REFINED MODEL; TEST METHOD; THIN METALS;

AIRCRAFT MODELS; ALUMINUM; CARBON FIBERS; CRACKS; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE DAMAGE; FIBER REINFORCED MATERIALS; FIBERS; GLASS FIBERS; HYBRID MATERIALS; METALS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SURFACE TREATMENT;

LAMINATES;

EID: 79955149888     PISSN: 02641275     EISSN: 18734197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2011.03.011     Document Type: Review

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