Characterization of vinyl ester-glass microballoon syntactic foams for marine applications

American Society for Composites - 22nd Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2007 - Composites: Enabling a New Era in Civil Aviation

Volumn 3, Issue , 2007, Pages 1875-1889

  Gupta, N ^a   Ye, R ^a   Porfiri, M ^a  

^a POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM MATRIX; COMPRESSIVE PROPERTIES; DAMAGE TOLERANT; FILLED COMPOSITES; GLASS MICROBALLOONS; HOLLOW PARTICLE; LIGHTWEIGHT COMPOSITES; LOWER DENSITY; MICROBALLOONS; STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS; SYNTACTIC FOAMS; VINYL ESTER RESIN; VINYL ESTERS;

AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS; ALUMINUM; CIVIL AVIATION; EPOXY RESINS; ESTERIFICATION; ESTERS; FOAMS; GLASS; RESINS;

MARINE APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84867761853     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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