On using corrugated skins to carry shear in sandwich beams

Composite Structures

Volumn 85, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 139-148

  Kampner, Matthew ^a   Grenestedt, Joachim L ^a  

^a LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Composite sandwich; Corrugated; Finite element analysis; Structural optimization

Indexed keywords

BEAMS AND GIRDERS; CORRUGATED MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SHEAR STRENGTH; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION;

CORRUGATED SKIN; SHEAR LOADS;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

COMPOSITE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; SHEAR PROPERTY; STIFFNESS;

EID: 42649141635     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2007.10.011     Document Type: Article

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