Fatigue failure of sandwich beams with face sheet wrinkle defects

Composites Science and Technology

Volumn 72, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1539-1547

  Leong, Martin ^a,b   Hvejsel, Christian F ^a   Thomsen, Ole T ^b,c   Lund, Erik ^b   Daniel, Isaac M ^d  

^a Siemens Wind Power A/S   (Denmark)

^b AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d Northwestern University   (United States)

Author keywords

B. Defects; B. Fatigue; C. Failure criterion; C. Finite element analysis (FEA); C. Sandwich structures

Indexed keywords

DESIGN LIMITS; FACE SHEETS; FAILURE CRITERIA; FATIGUE DESIGN; FATIGUE FAILURES; FATIGUE LOADINGS; FATIGUE LOADS; FINAL FAILURES; FULLY REVERSED; LOAD CYCLE; NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY; SANDWICH BEAMS; STATIC TESTS; WIND TURBINE BLADES;

COMPOSITE BEAMS AND GIRDERS; DEFECTS; DESIGN; FATIGUE TESTING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LOADING; SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

FATIGUE DAMAGE;

EID: 84864411758     PISSN: 02663538     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compscitech.2012.06.001     Document Type: Article

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