Failure site location by acoustic emission for composites reliability assurance

The failure of fiber filaments in a composite subjected to load produces a stress wave which can be detected using acoustic emission techniques. The spatial clustering of multiple fiber failure sites is known to cause catastrophic failure of the macro composite. Acoustic emission can be used to dete...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gish, Donald A.
Other Authors: Wu, Edward M.
Language:en_US
Published: Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10945/7565