Influence of process pressure on local facesheet instability for ultra-light sandwich structures

Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials

Volumn 11, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 293-311

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

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

Author keywords

Adhesive menisci; Facesheet waviness; Honeycomb core; Process pressure; Wrinkling

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; FACESHEET WAVINESS; HONEYCOMB CELLS; HONEYCOMB CORE; OPTIMAL PROCESS; PROCESS PRESSURE; ULTRA-LIGHT; WRINKLING;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SKIN;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 70449484293     PISSN: 10996362     EISSN: 15307972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1099636209104513     Document Type: Article

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