Environmental effects on mode II fatigue delamination growth in an aerospace grade carbon/epoxy composite

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 475-485

  Landry, Benoit ^a   Laplante, Gabriel ^a   Leblanc, Luc R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

B. Delamination; B. Environmental degradation; C. Finite element analysis (FEA); D. Mechanical testing

Indexed keywords

C. FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS (FEA); CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITES; COHESIVE ZONES; DE-ICING FLUIDS; DELAMINATION PROPAGATION; DELAMINATION TOUGHNESS; FATIGUE DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FRACTURE PATTERN; MODE II; NUMBER OF CYCLES; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROGRAPHS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FLUIDS; MECHANICAL TESTING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STEEL SHEET; WEATHERING;

DELAMINATION;

EID: 84856527520     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2011.11.015     Document Type: Article

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