Advances in the structural modeling of elastic sandwich panels

Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures

Volumn 11, Issue 4-5, 2004, Pages 395-424

  Hohe, Jörg ^a   Librescu, Liviu ^b  

^a FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR MECHANICS OF MATERIALS IWM   (Germany)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; DEFORMATION; ELASTICITY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

LIGHTWEIGHT STRUCTURES; SANDWICH PANELS; STRUCTURAL MODELING;

STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 24644452411     PISSN: 15376494     EISSN: 15376532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15376490490451561     Document Type: Article

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