Mechanical behaviour of pultruded glass fibre reinforced polymer composites at elevated temperature: Experiments and model assessment

Composite Structures

Volumn 98, Issue , 2013, Pages 303-313

  Correia, João R ^a   Gomes, Marco M ^a   Pires, José M ^a   Branco, Fernando A ^a  

^a INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Degradation models; Elevated temperature; Experimental tests; GFRP profiles; Mechanical behaviour; Pultrusion

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION MODEL; ELEVATED TEMPERATURE; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; GFRP PROFILES; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ESTIMATION; EXPERIMENTS; GLASS TRANSITION; MATERIALS; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PULTRUSION;

TENSILE STRENGTH;

EID: 84872011436     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2012.10.051     Document Type: Article

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