Impact characterization of sandwich structures with an integrated orthogrid stiffened syntactic foam core

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 68, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 2078-2084

  Li, Guoqiang ^a,b   Muthyala, Venkata Dinesh ^a  

^a Louisiana State University   (United States)

^b SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

A. Sandwich; B. Impact; C. Finite element analysis; E. Knitting; Grid

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERIZATION; COMPRESSION TESTING; FIBER REINFORCED PLASTICS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; IMPACT RESISTANCE;

FIBER REINFORCED POLYMER; HYBRID CORE; IMPACT RESPONSE; ORTHOGRID SKELETON; RESIDUAL STRENGTH;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

COMPRESSION; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; FILAMENT; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FOAM; IMPACT; KNITTING; SCANNING ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; STRENGTH; TECHNOLOGY; TESTING; WEAVING; WINDING;

EID: 44149111553     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2008.03.014     Document Type: Article

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