Experiment assessment of the ballistic response of composite pyramidal lattice truss structures

Composites Part B: Engineering

Volumn 39, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 556-569

  Yungwirth, Christian J ^a   Radford, Darren D ^a,b   Aronson, Mark ^a   Wadley, Haydn N G ^a  

^a University of Virginia   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Honeycomb; A. Hybrid; B. Fragmentation; B. Impact behaviour

Indexed keywords

BALLISTICS; ELASTOMERS; PLASTIC DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TRUSSES;

FRAGMENTATION; HONEYCOMB; IMPACT BEHAVIOR;

COMPOSITE MATERIALS;

EID: 40149097907     PISSN: 13598368     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2007.02.029     Document Type: Article

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