Initial postcritical behavior of sandwich columns with low shear and transverse stiffness

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 159-164

  Beghini, Alessandro ^a   Bažant, Zdeněk P ^b   Waas, Anthony M ^c   Basu, Shiladitya ^c  

^a Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Polymer matrix composites (PMCs); B. Buckling; B. Delamination; B. Fracture; Sandwich structures

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BUCKLING; COLUMNS (STRUCTURAL); COMPUTER SIMULATION; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FRACTURE; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; POLYMER MATRIX COMPOSITES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STIFFNESS;

ENERGETIC VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS; SANDWICH COLUMNS; TRANSVERSE STIFFNESS;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 35648973751     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2007.02.018     Document Type: Article

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