Measurement and simulation of the performance of a lightweight metallic sandwich structure with a tetrahedral truss core

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 368-374

  Rathbun, H J ^a   Wei, Z ^a   He, M Y ^a   Zok, F W ^a   Evans, A G ^a   Sypeck, D J ^b   Wadley, H N G ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Advanced Dynamics and Control Laboratory   (United States)

^c University of Virginia   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BENDING MOMENT; TETRAHEDRAL TRUSS CORES; TRUSS STRUCTURES; YIELD STRAIN;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; ELASTIC MODULI; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; TRUSSES;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 12344301212     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.1757487     Document Type: Article

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