Static and dynamic delamination of foam core sandwich members

AIAA Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2937-2948

  Sridharan, Srinivasan ^a,b,c   Li, Yupeng ^a,b,d  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Campus Box 1130 ^*

^c AIAA   (United States)

^d INTEL CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELEMENT MODELS; SLENDERS; STATIC BEHAVIORS;

BUCKLING; COMPACTION; CRACK PROPAGATION; DELAMINATION; FOAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; THICKNESS MEASUREMENT;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 33846102438     PISSN: 00011452     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2514/1.20525     Document Type: Article

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