Behaviour of sandwich panels subject to intense air blasts - Part 2: Numerical simulation

Composite Structures

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 442-450

  Karagiozova, D ^a,b   Nurick, G N ^a   Langdon, G S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b INSTITUTE OF MECHANICS   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Blast loading; Honeycomb; Numerical; Plates; Sandwich

Indexed keywords

BLAST LOADING; HONEYCOMB; NUMERICAL; PLATES; SANDWICH; ALUMINIUM HONEYCOMB; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; LOCALISED BLAST LOADINGS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; COREMAKING; LOADING; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL PANELS; PLATING;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LOADING (TESTING); MATHEMATICAL MODEL; STEEL; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 68949177122     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2009.04.010     Document Type: Article

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