Prediction of the adhesive fillet size for skin to honeycomb core bonding in ultra-light sandwich structures

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 39, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1547-1555

  Rion, Julien ^a   Leterrier, Yves ^a   Månson, Jan Anders E ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DE TECHNOLOGIE DES COMPOSITES ET POLYMÈRES LTC   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

A: Honeycomb; Adhesive meniscus; B: Debonding

Indexed keywords

RESINS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SKIN;

A: HONEYCOMB; ADHESIVE MENISCUS; B: DEBONDING; BONDING PROCESSES; HONEYCOMB CORES; ULTRA-LIGHT;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 50049089756     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2008.05.022     Document Type: Article

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