Behaviour of sandwich structures with cork compound cores subjected to blast waves

Engineering Structures

Volumn 46, Issue , 2013, Pages 140-146

  Sousa Martins, J ^a   Kakogiannis, D ^b   Coghe, F ^b   Reymen, B ^b   Teixeira Dias, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AVEIRO   (Portugal)

^b ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Blast wave; Cellular material; Cork; Energy absorption; Sandwich structure

Indexed keywords

BALLISTIC PENDULUM; BLAST WAVES; BLAST-WAVE; CELLULAR MATERIAL; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; CLOSED CELLS; CONSTANT LOADS; CONSTANT STRESS; CONSTANT THICKNESS; CORE DENSITIES; CORK; FACE SHEETS; HIGH EXPLOSIVES; HIGH SPECIFIC STIFFNESS; LARGE DEFORMATIONS; LINEAR DEPENDENCE; LOW DENSITY; NATURAL MATERIALS; RELATIVE CORE; SANDWICH SYSTEM; STAND-OFF DISTANCE (SOD); STRUCTURAL RESPONSE; THICKNESS REDUCTION;

ENERGY ABSORPTION; ENERGY DISSIPATION; PENDULUMS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STRENGTH OF MATERIALS;

EXPLOSIVES;

ALLOY; ALUMINUM; DEFORMATION MECHANISM; ENERGY DISSIPATION; MECHANICAL PROPERTY; STEEL STRUCTURE; STRUCTURAL RESPONSE;

EID: 84865980228     PISSN: 01410296     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.engstruct.2012.07.030     Document Type: Article

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