Increasing allowable flight loads by improved structural modeling

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 376-381

  Acar, Erdem ^a,b,c   Haftka, Raphael T ^a,b,c   Sankar, Bhavani V ^a,b,c   Qiu, Xueshi ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering ^*  (United States)

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d Structural Mechanics Department   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLIGHT LOADS; INTERFACIAL FRACTURE TOUGHNESS; SANDWICH PANEL;

FRACTURE; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PROBABILITY; TOUGHNESS;

FLIGHT DYNAMICS;

EID: 33645145800     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.17804     Document Type: Conference Paper

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