Effect of a thin soft core on the bending behavior of a sandwich with thick CFRP facings

Journal of Sandwich Structures and Materials

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 159-175

  Iaccarino, P ^a   Leone, C ^a   Durante, M ^a   Caprino, G ^a   Lamboglia, A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES FEDERICO II   (Italy)

^b ALENIA SPAZIO   (Italy)

Author keywords

finite element analysis; sandwich with soft core; shear effect; three point bending

Indexed keywords

BEAM BENDING; BENDING BEHAVIOR; BENDING RIGIDITY; CLOSED-FORM FORMULAE; ELASTIC DOMAIN; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT MODELS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; NUMERICAL RESULTS; SANDWICH BEAMS; SANDWICH THEORY; SANDWICH WITH SOFT CORE; SHEAR EFFECT; SHEAR RIGIDITY; SLENDERNESS RATIOS; SOFT-CORES; THREE POINT BENDING; THREE-LAYER; THREE-POINT BENDING TEST; VISCOELASTIC LAYERS;

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BENDING TESTS; FACINGS; RIGIDITY; SHEAR FLOW;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 79953326577     PISSN: 10996362     EISSN: 15307972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1099636210385054     Document Type: Article

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