Response of GLARE© panels to blast loading

Engineering Structures

Volumn 31, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 3116-3120

  Langdon, G S ^a   Chi, Y ^a   Nurick, G N ^a   Haupt, P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b Future production Chemicals Cluster   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Blast loading; Composites; Fibre metal laminates; GLARE

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT INDUSTRIES; BLAST LOADING; BLAST RESISTANT; COMPOSITES; ELSEVIER; FIBRE METAL LAMINATES; IMPACT PROPERTY; MONOLITHIC METALS;

AIRCRAFT; GLARE; LAMINATES; METALS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

BLAST RESISTANCE;

AIRCRAFT; COMPOSITE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FATIGUE; LOADING; TESTING METHOD;

EID: 70449732441     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2009.07.010     Document Type: Article

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