Honeycomb cores with enhanced buckling strength

Composite Structures

Volumn 93, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1072-1077

  Miller, W ^a   Smith, C W ^a   Evans, K E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Buckling; Functional materials; Honeycomb; Negative poisson's ratio

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; COMPRESSIVE STRESS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONAL MATERIALS; GEOMETRY;

FINITE ELEMENT MODELLING; HEXAGONAL GEOMETRY; HEXAGONAL HONEYCOMB; HONEYCOMB; KEY PERFORMANCE FACTORS; NEGATIVE POISSON'S RATIOS; THROUGH-THICKNESS COMPRESSIONS; TRANSPORT APPLICATIONS;

HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES;

EID: 79954926071     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2010.09.021     Document Type: Article

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