Fatigue of Undamaged and Damaged Honeycomb Sandwich Beams

Journal of Sandwich Structures & Materials

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 50-74

  Burman, Magnus ^a   Zenkert, Dan ^a  

^a ROYAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

crack growth; crack initiation; crack propagation; fatigue; honeycomb; load ratio; Nomex; notch factor; prediction model; sandwich construction; sub surface core damage

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990374904     PISSN: 10996362     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/109963620000200103     Document Type: Article

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