Thermo-mechanical load interactions in foam cored axi-symmetric sandwich circular plates - High-order and FE models

Composite Structures

Volumn 93, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 369-376

  Santiuste, Carlos ^a   Thomsen, Ole T ^b   Frostig, Yeoshua ^c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

FEA modeling; Flexible core; High order sandwich panel theory (HSAPT) model; Properties degradation; Sandwich structures; Temperature dependent mechanical properties

Indexed keywords

FEA MODELING; FLEXIBLE CORE; HIGH-ORDER; PROPERTIES DEGRADATION; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

COREMAKING; DEGRADATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SANDWICH STRUCTURES; TEMPERATURE;

MECHANICAL PROPERTIES;

EID: 79951513318     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2010.09.005     Document Type: Article

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