Evaluation of the transverse shear stiffness of a steel bi-directional corrugated-strip-core sandwich beam

Journal of Constructional Steel Research

Volumn 67, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 248-254

  Leekitwattana, M ^a   Boyd, S W ^a   Shenoi, R A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Corrugated core; Finite element; Modelling; Sandwich beam; Stiffness matrix; Transverse shear stiffness

Indexed keywords

CORRUGATED CORE; FINITE ELEMENT; MODELLING; SANDWICH BEAMS; TRANSVERSE SHEAR STIFFNESS;

STIFFNESS;

STIFFNESS MATRIX;

EID: 77957273382     PISSN: 0143974X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcsr.2010.07.010     Document Type: Article

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