High strain rate compressive tests on woven graphite epoxy composites

Applied Composite Materials

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 311-325

  Allazadeh, Mohammad Reza ^a   Wosu, Sylvanus N ^a  

^a University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

Absorbed energy; Composites material; Compression test; High strain rate; P SHPB; Woven graphite epoxy

Indexed keywords

ABSORBED ENERGY; COMPOSITES MATERIAL; COMPRESSION TEST; HIGH STRAIN RATES; P-SHPB; WOVEN GRAPHITE EPOXY;

COMPRESSION TESTING; ENGINEERING RESEARCH; EXPERIMENTS; GRAPHITE; GRAPHITE EPOXY COMPOSITES; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; TESTING; WEAVING;

STRAIN RATE;

EID: 80052454881     PISSN: 0929189X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10443-010-9159-6     Document Type: Article

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