The in-plane stiffnesses of a honeycomb core including the thickness effect

Archive of Applied Mechanics

Volumn 68, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 334-341

  Becker, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Effective stiffness; Honeycomb core; Sandwich; Thickness effect

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MECHANICS; NUMERICAL METHODS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STRAIN;

CLOSED FORM APPROACH; CORE DISPLACEMENT; HONEYCOMB CORE; THICKNESS EFFECT;

STIFFNESS;

EID: 0032069940     PISSN: 09391533     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004190050169     Document Type: Article

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