Compressive Behavior of a Glass/Epoxy Composite Laminates with Single Delamination

Subject Areas : Engineering

A Ghorbanpour Arani ¹ , R Moslemian ² , A Arefmanesh ³

1 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kashan
2 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kashan
3 - Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kashan

Received: 2009-05-29 Accepted : 2009-07-26 Published : 2009-07-30

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