Impact response and damage tolerance of composite sandwich structures

Dynamic Failure of Materials and Structures

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 191-233

  Daniel, Isaac M ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

Carbon fiber composites; Damage modes; Damage tolerance; Glass fiber composites; Impact behaviour; Impact damage modeling; Postimpact behaviour; Sandwich core properties; Sandwich panels

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858173296     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0446-1_7     Document Type: Chapter

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