Performance of functionally graded sandwich composite beams under shock wave loading

Composite Structures

Volumn 94, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 1755-1770

  Gardner, Nate ^a   Wang, Erheng ^a   Shukla, Arun ^a  

^a University of Rhode Island   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic wave impedance; Blast loading; Functionally graded materials; High speed photography; Sandwich structures

Indexed keywords

BLAST LOADING; CONSTITUTIVE BEHAVIORS; CORE CONFIGURATION; CORE LAYERS; CORE-CELLS; DEFORMATION PROCESS; DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATIONS; DYNAMIC BEHAVIORS; E-GLASS; FACESHEETS; FOAM CORE; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED; OPTICAL TECHNIQUE; POSTMORTEM ANALYSIS; QUASI-STATIC; SANDWICH COMPOSITES; SHOCK-WAVE LOADING; SPECIMEN DIMENSION; THREE-LAYER; TWO LAYERS; WAVE IMPEDANCES;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; ACOUSTICS; DYNAMIC ANALYSIS; FOAMS; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS; HIGH SPEED CAMERAS; HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SHOCK TUBES; TUBES (COMPONENTS);

NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

EID: 84858703059     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2011.12.006     Document Type: Article

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