Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2009. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains xi, 71 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 69-71).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2007. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains ix, 118 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 117-118).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2006. / Additional advisors: James S. Davidson, Derrick R. Dean, Gregg M. Janowski, Mark L. Weaver. Description based on contents viewed Jan. 24, 2007; title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-246).

This research deals with the mechanical characterisation of thick composite laminates in the through-thickness direction. Three independent glass fibre/epoxy laminate configurations, namely cross, quasi-isotropic, and woven, plies were investigated. Six specimen configurations, of which two were developed herein, were employed in order to determine the strength behaviour of these three laminate configurations when subjected to interlaminar shear and interlaminar tensile stresses in isolation and in combination. The stress and strain distributions were estimated using the ABAQUS FEA package. The strain distribution obtained thereby was verified experimentally via Moirandeacute; interferometry which records the exact strain field at the test section. A two dimensional failure envelope is defined for each laminate configuration using the experimentally obtained data. All three independent laminate configurations exhibited almost identical failure envelopes. The woven laminate exhibited superior interlaminar shear strength when subjected to combined interlaminar shear and interlaminar tensile stresses, whereas the cross-ply laminate exhibited superior interlaminar tensile strength when subjected to the same combination of stress. The characteristics of the quasi-isotropic laminate were similar to that of the cross-ply laminate. A partial three dimensional failure envelope was also defined for the materials tested.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--State University of New York at Buffalo, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available online from ProQuest (http://proquest.umi.com/).

Thesis (M.S.)--West Virginia University, 2003. / Title from document title page. Document formatted into pages; contains x, 128 p. : ill. (some col.). Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 96-97).

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Alabama at Birmingham, 2010. / Title from PDF t.p. (viewed July 19, 2010). Includes bibliographical references (p. 67-70).

Thesis (M.Eng.)--Memorial University of Newfoundland, 2004. / Restricted until October 2005. Bibliography: leaves 198-202.