New crack stopper concept for sandwich structures

ICCM International Conferences on Composite Materials

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Jakobsen, Johnny ^a   Bozhevolnaya, Elena ^a   Thomsen, Ole T ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Crack propagation; Crack stopper; Damage assessment; Sandwich structures

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DAMAGE DETECTION; GLASS CERAMICS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; VIDEO RECORDING;

CORE INTERFACES; CRACK INITIATION AND PROPAGATION; CRACK STOPPERS; DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS; HIGH-SPEED VIDEO; MODEL PARAMETERS; SANDWICH CORES; THREE POINT BENDING;

CRACKS;

EID: 85076870999     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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