Review of Damage Tolerant Analysis of Laminated Composites

Subject Areas : Engineering

X.L  Fan ¹ (State Key Laboratory for Mechanical Structural Strength and Vibration, School of Aerospace, Xi’an Jiao Tong University)
Q  Sun ² (School of Aeronautics, Northwestern Polytechnical University)
M  Kikuchi ³ (Faculty of Science and Engineering, Tokyo University of Science)

Received: 2010-09-16 Accepted : 2010-11-02 Published : 2010-09-30

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