Fatigue crack growth at the face sheet-core interface in a discontinuous ceramic-tile cored sandwich structure

Composite Structures

Volumn 94, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3186-3193

  Gillespie Jr , J W ^a   Carlsson, L A ^b   Gawandi, A A ^a   Bogetti, T A ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b Florida Atlantic Univ   (United States)

^c U S ARMY RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Armor; Ceramic tile; Discontinous core; Fatigue; Sandwich structures

Indexed keywords

ADHESIVE LAYERS; CERAMIC TILE; COMPOSITE FACES; CRACK LENGTH; CYCLIC ENERGY; DISCONTINOUS CORE; EXPERIMENTAL DATA; FACE SHEETS; FATIGUE CRACK GROWTH BEHAVIOR; FATIGUE FAILURES; INPLANE LOADING; LOAD LEVELS; MODE II; MODE SEPARATION; NON-UNIFORM STRESS; NUMBER OF CYCLES; STATIC TENSILE TESTS; VIRTUAL CRACK CLOSURE TECHNIQUE;

ADHESIVES; ANALYTICAL MODELS; ARMOR; CERAMIC MATERIALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CRACKS; DEBONDING; ENERGY RELEASE RATE; FATIGUE CRACK PROPAGATION; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FATIGUE TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING; MODELS; NANOCOMPOSITE FILMS;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 84863093985     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2012.05.021     Document Type: Article

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