The bending and failure of sandwich structures with auxetic gradient cellular cores

Composites Part A: Applied Science and Manufacturing

Volumn 49, Issue , 2013, Pages 119-131

  Hou, Y ^a,b   Tai, Y H ^c   Lira, C ^b,d   Scarpa, F ^b   Yates, J R ^e   Gu, B ^a  

^a DONGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d NATIONAL COMPOSITES CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

A. Honeycomb; B. Fracture; C. Finite Element Analysis (FEA); D. Mechanical testing

Indexed keywords

A. HONEYCOMB; CELLULAR STRUCTURE; FLEXURAL PROPERTIES; GRADIENT VARIATIONS; MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE; NON-LINEAR FINITE ELEMENT MODEL; PARAMETRIC -ANALYSIS; THREE-POINT BENDING TEST;

ASPECT RATIO; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; MECHANICAL TESTING;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 84875843308     PISSN: 1359835X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesa.2013.02.007     Document Type: Article

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