Some remarks on the micromechanical modeling of glass/epoxy syntactic foams

20th Technical Conference of the American Society for Composites 2005

Volumn 1, Issue , 2005, Pages 96-115

  Bardella, Lorenzo ^a   Genna, Francesco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOAMS; GLASS; MICROMECHANICS; POPULATION STATISTICS; SYNTACTICS;

BRITTLE FAILURES; CENOSPHERES; CONTINUUM MICROMECHANICS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; EPOXY MATRICES; GLASS EPOXY; MANUFACTURING STAGES; MICROMECHANICAL MODELLING; PROPERTY; SYNTACTIC FOAMS;

FILLERS;

EID: 84871011615     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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