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High-Strength Hybrid Textile Composites with Carbon, Kevlar, and E-Glass Fibers for Impact-Resistant Structures. A Review.

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The paper reviews the characterization of high-performance hybrid textile composites and their hybridization effects of composite’s behavior. Considered are research works based on the finite-element modeling, simulation, and experimental characterization of various mechanical properties of such composites.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, 302017, India

    P. Priyanka & H. S. Mali

  2. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, G.B. Pant Government Engineering College, New Delhi, 110020, India

    A. Dixit

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Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 53, No. 5, pp. 981-1008 , September-October, 2017.

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Priyanka, P., Dixit, A. & Mali, H.S. High-Strength Hybrid Textile Composites with Carbon, Kevlar, and E-Glass Fibers for Impact-Resistant Structures. A Review.. Mech Compos Mater 53, 685–704 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-017-9696-2

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