Design and testing of the Minotaur advanced grid-stiffened fairing

Composite Structures

Volumn 66, Issue 1-4, 2004, Pages 339-349

  Higgins, P E John ^a   Wegner, Peter ^a   Viisoreanu, Adrian ^b   Sanford, Greg ^c  

^a AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b BOEING COMPANY   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling; Composite; Failure criteria; Fairing; Grid stiffened; Testing

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; CARBON FIBERS; CATAPULTS (AIRCRAFT LAUNCHERS); COSTS; DATA ACQUISITION; JOINTS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS;

BOUNDING STRAINS; GRID-STIFFENED FAIRING; SKIN POCKETS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

COMPOSITE;

EID: 4143145181     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2004.04.055     Document Type: Article

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