Analysis of debonding fracture in a sandwich plate with hexagonal core

Composite Structures

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 385-392

  Goswami, Sanjib ^a   Becker, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Debonding; Energy release rate; Hexagonal core; In plane loading; Sandwich

Indexed keywords

CRACK INITIATION; CRACK PROPAGATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE MECHANICS; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

DEBONDING FRACTURE; HEXAGONAL CORE; IRWIN CRACK CLOSURE INTEGRAL;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

AEROSPACE TEXTILE; CRACKING; DEBONDING; FRACTURE; INTERFACING; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0034120773     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0263-8223(00)00072-6     Document Type: Article

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