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Dynamic stress concentrations in reinforced composites

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Il Nuovo Cimento B (1971-1996)

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Mechanical disturbances propagating in solid media give rise to dynamic stress concentrations when a material discontinuity is encountered. Composite materials are susceptible to damage and failure because the reinforcing particles or fibers present such discontinuities compared to the elastic properties of the surrounding binder. By considering the scattering of elastic waves from spherical elastic particles and cylindrical elastic fibers, embedded in solid binders we give, in this paper, analytic expressions for the corresponding dynamic stress concentrations in particle- and fiber-reinforced composite materials.

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  1. M. K. Hinders

    Present address: Applied Science and Physics, The College of William and Mary, 23187, Williamsburg, VA, USA

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  1. Massachussets Technological Laboratory, Inc., 330 Pleasant Street, 02178, Belmont, MA

    M. K. Hinders & Ta-Ming Fang

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Hinders, M.K., Fang, TM. Dynamic stress concentrations in reinforced composites. Il Nuovo Cimento B 109, 681–684 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02728450

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