Effects of fiber orientation of adjacent plies on the mode I crack propagation in a carbon-epoxy laminates

Procedia Engineering

Volumn 10, Issue , 2011, Pages 3179-3184

  Mohamed Rehan, M S ^a,b   Rousseau, J ^a   Gong, X J ^a   Guillaumat, L ^a   Ali, J S M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b INTERNATIONAL ISLAMIC UNIVERSITY MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

DCB test; Delamination; Fracture toughness; Ply orientation; QIQH laminates

Indexed keywords

CANTILEVER BEAMS; CARBON; CRACK PROPAGATION; CRACKS; DELAMINATION; FAILURE (MECHANICAL); FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

COMPOSITE LAMINATE; CRACK PROPAGATION BEHAVIOR; DCB TESTS; DOUBLE CANTILEVER BEAM; ELASTIC PARAMETERS; ORIENTATION PARAMETER; PLY ORIENTATION; STACKING SEQUENCE;

LAMINATES;

EID: 80052958794     PISSN: 18777058     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1016/j.proeng.2011.04.525     Document Type: Conference Paper

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