Numerical analysis and experiment of composite sandwich T-joints subjected to pulling load

Composite Structures

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 229-238

  Guo, S ^a   Morishima, R ^a  

^a CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experiment; Failure load; FE analysis; Pulling load; Sandwich T joint

Indexed keywords

ALTERNATIVE DESIGNS; COMPOSITE SANDWICHES; CONVENTIONAL DESIGN; FAILURE LOAD; FAILURE MECHANISM; FE ANALYSIS; GOOD CORRELATIONS; MANUFACTURE PROCESS; NUMERICAL MODELING AND ANALYSIS; PULLING LOADS; T JOINTS; TEST DATA; TEST SAMPLES; WEB PANELS;

DESIGN; EXPERIMENTS; MANUFACTURE; NUMERICAL METHODS; USER INTERFACES;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 80053052370     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2011.06.022     Document Type: Article

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