Experimental and numerical characterization of honeycomb sandwich composite panels

Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory

Volumn 17, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1533-1547

  Abbadi, Ahmed ^a   Koutsawa, Y ^a   Carmasol, A ^b   Belouettar, S ^a   Azari, Z ^b  

^a LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Honeycomb; Mechanical properties; Modelling; Plate theory; Sandwich

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; EFFECTIVE PROPERTY; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT; FOUR-POINT BENDING TEST; GENERAL KINEMATICS; HOMOGENIZATION APPROACH; HONEYCOMB; HONEYCOMB CORE; HONEYCOMB SANDWICH COMPOSITE; HONEYCOMB SANDWICH PANELS; MATERIAL PROPERTY; MODELLING; NUMERICAL CHARACTERIZATION; NUMERICAL MODELS; PLATE THEORY; QUANTITATIVE ASSESSMENTS; SANDWICH; SOLID LAYERS;

KINEMATICS; MECHANICAL PROPERTIES; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STRUCTURAL PANELS;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 70349197808     PISSN: 1569190X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.simpat.2009.05.008     Document Type: Article

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