Interfacial fatigue crack growth in foam core sandwich structures

Fatigue and Fracture of Engineering Materials and Structures

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 123-131

  Shipsha, A ^a   Burman, M ^a   Zenkert, D ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DATA REDUCTION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STRESS INTENSITY FACTORS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

FOAM CORE SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

CRACK PROPAGATION;

EID: 0032648677     PISSN: 8756758X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-2695.1999.00148.x     Document Type: Article

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