Impact damage evaluation of high performance polymeric composite material systems

The thesis is presented in two parts. In Part I a nitrogen gas gun impact system developed at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University is described. Evaluation methods for impact damage resistance and impact damage tolerance as developed by K. T. Teh are presented as a basis for comparati...

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Main Author: Peters, Diane S.
Other Authors: Engineering Mechanics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/44405
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08222009-040525/