Fabrication and mechanical testing of glass fiber entangled sandwich beams: A comparison with honeycomb and foam sandwich beams

Composite Structures

Volumn 90, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 404-412

  Shahdin, Amir ^a   Mezeix, Laurent ^b   Bouvet, Christophe ^c   Morlier, Joseph ^a   Gourinat, Yves ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ PAUL SABATIER   (France)

Author keywords

Damping; Entangled sandwich materials; Mechanical testing; Vibration testing

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC APPLICATION; CORE MATERIAL; DAMPING RATIO; ENTANGLED SANDWICH MATERIALS; SANDWICH BEAMS; SHEAR MODULUS; STRUCTURAL STRENGTH; VIBRATION TEST; VIBRATION TESTING; VIBRATORY LEVELS; WOVEN FABRICS;

COREMAKING; DAMPING; GLASS FIBERS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MATERIALS TESTING; MECHANICAL ENGINEERING; PNEUMATIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; VIBRATIONS (MECHANICAL);

MECHANICAL TESTING;

COMPRESSIVE PROPERTY; FABRICATION; GLASS FIBER; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; SHEAR PROPERTY; TESTING;

EID: 67349161857     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2009.04.003     Document Type: Article

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