Browsing by Subject "Laminated materials"
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Determination of the mode I delamination fracture toughness of multidirectional composite laminates (Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)The objective of this study is to develop and verify a theoretically-based method for characterizing mode I delamination fracture of composite laminates. Attention focuses on the special problems associated with delamination ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)Metal matrix composites (MMCs) are currently receiving much interest in the materials community. These materials may be engineered to specific design needs by varying the reinforcement material and morphology. The primary ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1988)Kirchhoff's theory for plates and Bernouilli-Euler's theory for beams ignore the effects of transverse shear and normal deformations on stresses and displacements. Various subsequent theories have incorporated these effects ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1992)A work potential based analysis was used to model damage related material nonlinearities in graphite-epoxy laminates. Two work potentials were incorporated. One potential was related to sub-ply damage, such as shear banding ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1993)A laminated composite pressure vessel subjected to a concentrated laser ablation process has been investigated. The primary goal of this research was to investigate the role of delamination in the failure process. A layered ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1986)A cumulative damage model for predicting the stiffness loss in crossply graphite/epoxy laminates is obtained by applying a thermomechanical constitutive theory for elastic composites with distributed damage. The model ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1987)Experimental methods for determining the existence of a work potential, useful in characterizing material response even in the presence of significant damage, are developed and described. The underlying fracture theory and ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1980)It is known that the Kirchhoff Theory neglects the effects of transverse stresses on the displacement functions. Thus the validity of Kirchhoff Theory is suspect for laminated beams if the material properties vary significantly ...
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(Texas A&M University. Libraries, 1983)