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Sutherland, L.S. and Guedes Soares, C. (2002), “Impact Behaviour of Low Fibre-Fraction Glass / Polyester Laminates”, Mecânica Experimental, Issue 7, pp. 53-59

Instrumented falling weight impact tests have been used to study the impact behaviour of hand laid-up, low fibre-fraction, glass-fibre reinforced polyester laminates. The effects of laminate reinforcement and thickness and of impact energy and velocity were studied. Failure modes were found to be complex, but a simple analysis assuming shear-dominated deformation enabled key features to be identified.

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