... polymers foams glass fibre reinforced plastics glass fibres intelligent structures laminates modal analysis piezoelectric transducers piezoelectricity resins sandwich structures shear strength stress-strain relations tensile strength tensile testing sandwich structures composites...

... , 38 , pp. 833 – 854 . 10.1177/0021998304042477 Epaarachchi , J. A. , and Clausen , P. D. , 2003 , “ An Empirical Model for Fatigue Behavior Prediction of Glass Fiber-Reinforced Plastic Composites for Various Stress Ratios and Test Frequencies ,” Composites, Part A: Appl. Sci. Manuf...

... of uniaxial tensile response is compared with experimental data. 08 06 2010 08 12 2010 09 12 2010 09 12 2010 elastic constants filled polymers finite element analysis fracture mechanics glass fibre reinforced plastics interface structure microcracks tensile strength...

... or carbon alone. Shan and Liao ( 3 ) evaluated the structural integrity of glass fiber-reinforced plastics (GFRPs) under environmental fatigue. This study revealed that the addition of carbon fiber to the glass composite increased the fatigue life by one order of magnitude. Another experimental program...

... factor settings for minimum wear rate. 10 01 2008 13 07 2008 02 06 2009 alumina ceramics fly ash genetic algorithms glass fibre reinforced plastics neural nets organic-inorganic hybrid materials particle reinforced composites silicon compounds Taguchi methods wear...

.... Voids seen in the top of Fig. 2b and at the center of Fig. 2d represent transition voids, and the void located at the left of Fig. 2d is an example of matrix voids. 30 05 2005 13 10 2008 09 03 2009 glass fibre reinforced plastics transfer moulding voids (solid...

... from nanoindentation experiments. 19 10 2006 16 06 2008 19 09 2008 atomic force microscopy elastic moduli glass fibre reinforced plastics hardness indentation Polymer matrix composites (PMCs) are the most well established advanced composite materials ( 1 ). PMCs...

... materials was compared in order to study the effect of weave and reinforcement on mechanical properties. The fracture mechanism was also analyzed by means of scanning electron microscopy. 03 01 2006 17 04 2006 woven composites glass fibre reinforced plastics carbon fibre reinforced...

... not be used and size effect on the mean structural strength is negligible. Neglect of size effect has been the norm in most of the practice and virtually all the textbooks, e.g., ( 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ). plates (structures) sandwich structures woven composites glass fibre reinforced plastics...

... as influencing fatigue performance. glass fibre reinforced plastics curing transfer moulding laminates fatigue creep shrinkage ageing viscoelasticity glass transition The degree of cure of vinyl-ester resin composites produced by the vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding (VARTM) process has...

... . Manuscript received by the Materials Division September 24, 2002; revision received February 12, 2003. Associate Editor: G. Newaz. 24 September 2002 12 February 2003 22 01 2004 glass fibre reinforced plastics photoelasticity crack-edge stress field analysis transparency fracture...

...; revision received May 3, 2002. Associate Editor: L. Cate Brinson. 07 September 2002 03 May 2002 04 04 2003 glass fibre reinforced plastics atomic force microscopy surface topography indentation composite material interfaces elastic moduli Fiber-reinforced polymer...

... MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY . Manuscript received by the Materials Division January 4, 2001; revised manuscript received August 28, 2001. Associate Editor: S. Mall. 04 01 2001 28 08 2001 26 03 2002 carbon fibre reinforced plastics glass fibre...

.... 01 February 2000 18 January 2001 damping fracture toughness laminates delamination bending glass fibre reinforced plastics carbon fibre reinforced plastics vibrations Multifunctionality is an intrinsic advantage of composite materials and structures, which are often...

... fibre reinforced plastics The characteristics of long-fiber-reinforced plastic as unidirectional reinforced material are high elasticity and strength in the direction of fiber orientation. However, when the composite materials are used as structural members, connecting them with other members...

... equation. Fatigue life predictions using this method have been found to be within 10 percent of the experimental values. [S0094-4289(00)02404-X] glass fibre reinforced plastics fatigue bending Young's modulus The composite laminates were fabricated using plain weave S2-glass fabric...

... MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY . Manuscript received by the Materials Division December 22, 1999; revised manuscript received April 12, 2000. Guest Editor: Assimina Pelegri. 22 December 1999 12 April 2000 laminates fatigue glass fibre reinforced plastics Advances in composite...

.... glass fibre reinforced plastics laminates fatigue cracks fracture mechanics density finite element analysis elastic constants 11 October 1999 13 February 2000 Contributed by the Materials Division for publication in the JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND TECHNOLOGY...