Effect of the amount of adhesive on the bending fatigue strength of adhesively bonded aluminum honeycomb sandwich beams

International Journal of Fatigue

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 455-462

  Jen, Yi Ming ^a   Ko, Chih Wei ^a   Lin, Hong Bin ^a  

^a CHUNG HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Amount of adhesive; Debonding; Fatigue; Finite element analysis; Honeycomb; Sandwich beam

Indexed keywords

ALUMINA; BENDING (DEFORMATION); BENDING STRENGTH; DEBONDING; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FORECASTING; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

AMOUNT OF ADHESIVE; FATIGUE; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; HONEYCOMB; SANDWICH BEAM;

FATIGUE TESTING;

EID: 56249132628     PISSN: 01421123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijfatigue.2008.07.008     Document Type: Article

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