Tearing of metallic sandwich panels subjected to air shock loading

Structural Engineering and Mechanics

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 351-370

  Zhu, Feng ^a   Lu, Guoxing ^a,b   Ruan, Dong ^a   Shu, Dongwei ^b  

^a SWINBURNE UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Blast loading; Failure modes; Numerical simulation; P i diagram; Sandwich panel

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DYNAMIC LOADS; FAILURE MODES; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STRAIN RATE;

BLAST LOADING; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPUTATIONAL STUDIES; ENGINEERING DESIGN; SANDWICH CONSTRUCTION; SANDWICH PANEL; STRAIN AND STRAIN RATES; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 77956134495     PISSN: 12254568     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12989/sem.2009.32.2.351     Document Type: Article

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