Sandwich structures with textile-reinforced composite foldcores under impact loads

Composite Structures

Volumn 92, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1485-1497

  Heimbs, S ^a   Cichosz, J ^a   Klaus, M ^b   Kilchert, S ^c   Johnson, A F ^c  

^a AIRBUS GROUP INNOVATIONS   (Germany)

^b RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c GERMAN AEROSPACE CENTER DLR   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cell wall failure; Composite foldcore; Finite element simulation; High velocity impact; Low velocity impact; Sandwich structure

Indexed keywords

ARAMID FIBRE; CELL WALLS; COMPOSITE SANDWICH STRUCTURE; DAMAGE PATTERNS; DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY; DUAL-CORE; EXPERIMENTAL TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; HIGH-VELOCITY IMPACT; IMPACT DAMAGES; IMPACT LOADS; IMPACT SIMULATION; LOW VELOCITY IMPACT; LS-DYNA; MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR; PARAMETER STUDIES; PREPREGS; SPECIFIC STIFFNESS; STRENGTH PROPERTY; TEST DATA; TEXTILE-REINFORCED COMPOSITES; ZIGZAG STRUCTURE;

ABSORPTION; ENERGY ABSORPTION; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; TEXTILES; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VELOCITY; WEAVING;

IMPACT STRENGTH;

ARAMID FIBER; COMPRESSION; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; PREPREG; SHEAR PROPERTY; STIFFNESS; STRENGTH; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; WOVEN FABRIC;

EID: 75149170862     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2009.11.001     Document Type: Article

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