The through-thickness compressive strength of a composite sandwich panel with a hierarchical square honeycomb sandwich core

Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME

Volumn 76, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1-8

  Cote F ^a   Russell, B P ^a   Deshpande, V S ^a   Fleck, N A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Composite; Honeycombs; Sandwich panels; Strength

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL EXPRESSIONS; ANALYTICAL MODEL; CELL WALLS; COLLAPSE MECHANISM; COMPOSITE FACES; COMPOSITE SANDWICH PANELS; ELASTIC BUCKLING; FACE SHEETS; FINITE ELEMENT CALCULATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; FOAM CORE; GEOMETRIC IMPERFECTION; HIERARCHICAL COMPOSITE; HIERARCHICAL TOPOLOGY; HONEYCOMB CORE; HONEYCOMB SANDWICH; MICROBUCKLING; MONOLITHIC COMPOSITE; OUT-OF-PLANE COMPRESSION; SANDWICH PANEL; SANDWICH PLATES;

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH; ELECTRIC NETWORK TOPOLOGY; FOAMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 77955265539     PISSN: 00218936     EISSN: 15289036     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1115/1.3086436     Document Type: Article

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