Prediction of impact damage on stitched sandwich composite panels

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 7493, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Zheng, Xitao ^a   Gou, Linhu ^a   Zheng, Xiaoxia ^a   Zhang, Jianfeng ^a  

^a NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Composites; Damage; Finite element methods; Impact simulation; Low velocity impact; Stitched foam core sandwich structure

Indexed keywords

DAMAGE AREA; DELAMINATION GROWTH; FACE SHEETS; FINITE ELEMENT; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FOAM CORE; IMPACT DAMAGES; IMPACT ENERGY; IMPACT EVENTS; IMPACT SIMULATION; LOW VELOCITY IMPACT; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; STITCHED SANDWICH; STITCHED SANDWICH COMPOSITES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; NANOTECHNOLOGY; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SIMULATORS; STEEL SHEET; VELOCITY;

FOAMS;

EID: 72149118499     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.843252     Document Type: Conference Paper

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