New designs of unidirectionally arrayed chopped strands by introducing discontinuous angled slits into prepreg

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 45, Issue , 2013, Pages 127-133

  Li, Hang ^a   Wang, Wen Xue ^b   Takao, Yoshihiro ^b   Matsubara, Terutake ^b  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

A. Discontinuous reinforcement; A. Laminates; B. Strength; D. Mechanical testing

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; MECHANICAL TESTING; TENSILE TESTING;

B. STRENGTH; DISCONTINUOUS REINFORCEMENT; FLOWABILITY; HYBRID LAMINATES; PAPER CUTTERS; PREPREGS; QUASI-ISOTROPIC;

LAMINATES;

EID: 84870786678     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2012.09.009     Document Type: Article

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