Sensitivity to specimen imperfections of Ioisipescu shear for composite laminates

ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Melin, L Niklas ^a   Neumeister, Jonas M ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Composite; Experiment; Imperfection; Iosipescu; Numerical; Shear; Specimen

Indexed keywords

CARBON FIBERS; COMPOSITE MATERIALS; DEFECTS; EXPERIMENTS; GEOMETRY; GLASS CERAMICS; SHEARING;

CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE; EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION; GEOMETRICAL DEVIATIONS; IOSIPESCU; NUMERICAL; NUMERICAL CALCULATION; ORTHOTROPIC COMPOSITES; SPECIMEN;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES;

EID: 85076868368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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8. Melin L.N. and Neumeister J.M.'The influence of specimen clamping and specimen imperfections on the Ioisipescu shear test performance' Paper C in Licentiate Thesis, KTH - Solid Mechanics no 99, 2006. To be submitted.