Numerical modelling of honeycomb core crush behaviour

Engineering Fracture Mechanics

Volumn 75, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2616-2630

  Aktay, Levent ^a   Johnson, Alastair F ^a   Kröplin, Bernd H ^b  

^a GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

Crushing; Honeycomb materials; Micromechanical modelling; Semi adaptive coupling technique

Indexed keywords

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; MICROMECHANICS;

SEMI-ADAPTIVE COUPLING TECHNIQUE; TRANSVERSE CRUSH;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MICROMECHANICS;

EID: 40649122038     PISSN: 00137944     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engfracmech.2007.03.008     Document Type: Article

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