Volume Title |
Structures
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Volume No |
Buckling of sandwich panels - under direct or shear loading, corrugated/orthotropic cores, local instability, face plate wrinkling.
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DATA Title |
Experimental determination of the shear and flexural stiffnesses of a sandwich panel. |
DATA Item |
66025 |
KEYWORD |
experimental, flexural, measurement, panel, sandwich, shear, stiffness, transverse |
ISBN |
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ABSTRACT |
The method described was selected after careful evaluation of those available. The test employs a five point beam bending system to a strip of the sandwich panel. A method of cross plotting the measured deflections to determine the required stiffnesses is described. |