Effective stress-strain relations for two-dimensional cellular sandwich cores: Homogenization, material models, and properties

Applied Mechanics Reviews

Volumn 55, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 61-87

  Hohe, Jörg ^a   Becker, Wilfried ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIEGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSPACE INDUSTRY; ELASTOPLASTICITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRESS ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL DESIGN; STRUCTURAL PANELS; TEXTBOOKS;

BENDING STIFFNESS; HOMOGENIZATION; SANDWICH SHELL THEORY; TRANSVERSE SHEAR LOADS;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 0345925736     PISSN: 00036900     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1425394     Document Type: Review

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