cross-ply

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cross-ply

(of a motor tyre) having the fabric cords in the outer casing running diagonally to stiffen the sidewalls

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Lafarie-Frenot, Evolution of matrix cracking in cross-ply CFRP laminates: Differences between mechanical and thermal loadings, 4th International Conference on Durability Analysis of Composite Systems, Brussels, Belgium (2000).

Residual Strength and Damage Mechanisms of Laminated Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer under Thermal Environments and Laser Irradiations

Their scheme maybe iterative, such as the so-called self-consistent methods [19, 20] and the proposed by Barbero [21-23], or departing from an initial set of real-life [24] or virtual finite element simulations such as the Synergistic Damage Mechanics (SDM) model presented by Singh and Talreja [25-27], which expanded the scope of micromechanical modelling to laminates other than cross-ply.

Micromechanics of Cracked Laminates under Uniaxial Load: A Comparison between Approaches

Cross-ply and quasi-isotropic specimens were cut from laminates developed at NASA Armstrong Flight Research Center.

Clustering of Fiber-Break Related Events in Carbon Fiber Reinforced Polymer Composites Using Acoustic Emission

Taking into account the test cycle and cost, according to the former tests, the reasonable tip mass should be 36.6 g for cross-ply specimens and 22 g for unidirectional specimens.

Experimental Research on Vibration Fatigue of CFRP and Its Influence Factors Based on Vibration Testing

[28.] Jose, S., et al., Intralaminar fracture toughness of a cross-ply laminate and its constituent sub-laminates.

Predicting impact damage, residual strength and crashworthiness of composite structures

The influence parameters of plate aspect ratio, cross-ply ratio and stiffness ratio on the critical temperature were presented.

Thermally induced stability and vibration of initially stressed laminated composite plates

Nosier, "Three-dimensional interlaminar stress analysis at free edges of general cross-ply composite laminates," Materials and Design, vol.

Reduction of free edge peeling stress of laminated composites using active piezoelectric layers

In Tables 2 and 3 we compare the nondimensionalized natural frequencies from the present Murakami theory for various cross-ply spherical shells, with analytical solutions done by Reddy and Liu [56] who considered both the first-order (FSDT) and the third-order (HSDT) theories.

Analysis of laminated shells by Murakami's Zig-Zag theory and radial basis functions collocation

Kobayashi, "Experimental characterization of microscopic failure process under quasi-static tension in interleaved and toughness-improved CFRP cross-ply laminates," Composites Science and Technology, vol.

Analytical and experimental study of residual stresses in CFRP

Topics discussed include parametric analysis of confinement in concrete columns, cross-ply laminate under static three point bending, tracking fatigue crack growth in aluminum joints, and 3D adaptive remeshing procedures for large deformation problems.

Behaviour of material and composite structures

The plant will make cross-ply tyres for trucks, light and small commercial vehicles and two-wheelers for the local market.

India's Ceat plans to set up tyremanufacturing plant in Bangladesh

It had those cross-ply tires on it." Dario smiles and laughs, "Yeah ...

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