Elastic imperfection sensitivity of hexagonally packed circular-cell honeycombs

Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 458, Issue 2028, 2002, Pages 2851-2868

  Chung, Jaeung ^a   Waas, Anthony M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Cellular solids; Finite element analysis; Mechanical properties; Orthotropy; Unit cell; Wall thickness defects

Indexed keywords

CELLS; CYTOLOGY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; MOBILE SECURITY; NUMERICAL METHODS; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS;

CELLULAR SOLIDS; CIRCULAR CELL HONEYCOMB; GEOMETRIC IMPERFECTION; IMPERFECTION SENSITIVITY; MACROSCOPIC STIFFNESS; ORTHOTROPY; UNIT CELLS; WALL THICKNESS;

BIOMECHANICS;

EID: 34547790904     PISSN: 13645021     EISSN: 14712946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rspa.2002.0976     Document Type: Article

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