Wedge-shaped folded sandwich cores for aircraft applications: From design and manufacturing process to experimental structure validation

CEAS Aeronautical Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 203-212

  Hähnel, Falk ^a   Wolf, Klaus ^a   Hauffe, Andreas ^a   Alekseev, Kirill A ^b   Zakirov, Il’dus M ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b KAZAN NATIONAL RESEARCH TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY NAMED AFTER A N TUPOLEV KAI   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Compression behaviour; Experimental investigation; Finite element simulation; Sandwich structures; Shear behaviour; Wedge shaped foldcore

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; GEOMETRY; HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES; NUMERICAL METHODS; SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

COMPRESSION BEHAVIOURS; EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATIONS; FINITE ELEMENT SIMULATIONS; SHEAR BEHAVIOUR; WEDGE-SHAPED FOLDCORE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 84880783834     PISSN: 18695582     EISSN: 18695590     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13272-011-0014-8     Document Type: Article

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