Impact damage on sandwich panels and multi-layer insulation

International Journal of Impact Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 1-10, 2001, Pages 369-380

  Lambert, Michel ^a   Schäfer, Frank K ^b   Geyer, Tobias ^b  

^a EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR HIGH SPEED DYNAMICS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hypervelocity impact; MLI; Sandwich panels; Whipple shield

Indexed keywords

EID: 1642283320     PISSN: 0734743X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0734-743x(01)00108-7     Document Type: Article

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