Review of composite sandwich structure in aeronautic applications

B Castanie, C Bouvet, M Ginot - Composites Part C: Open Access, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper presents a review of the issues concerning sandwich structures for aeronautical
applications. The main questions raised by designers are first recalled and the complexity of …

Lightweight sandwich structures for marine applications: a review

G Palomba, G Epasto, V Crupi - Mechanics of Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
The current paper is intended to provide an overview on the current state of the art for
sandwich structures marine applications to support their wider application and identify the …

Collapse modes in aluminium honeycomb sandwich panels under bending and impact loading

V Crupi, G Epasto, E Guglielmino - International Journal of Impact …, 2012 - Elsevier
Sandwich structures have been widely employed to build lightweight components having
good mechanical properties and energy absorbing capacity, especially in the transport …

Experimental and numerical study on the low-velocity impact behavior of foam-core sandwich panels

J Wang, AM Waas, H Wang - Composite Structures, 2013 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of an experimental and numerical study on the low-velocity
impact behavior of foam-core sandwich panels. Panels with polyurethane foam core and …

Energy absorption characteristics of novel bio-inspired hierarchical anti-tetrachiral structures

C Zhang, S Ba, Z Zhao, L Li, H Tang, X Wang - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Most natural (or biological) materials possess chiral and hierarchical properties, thus can
exhibit outstanding mechanical properties, such as shear resistance, vibration attenuation …

A review of low-velocity impact on sandwich structures

GB Chai, S Zhu - … of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers …, 2011 - journals.sagepub.com
This contribution is a review of past and current research progress on dynamic response of
composites sandwich structures subjected to low-velocity impact. To obtain a …

Crushing behavior of honeycomb structure: a review

T Thomas, G Tiwari - International journal of crashworthiness, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
This article concludes some of the important observation regarding quasi-static and dynamic
crushing response of honeycomb structure carried out by authors and addressed in the …

Crashworthiness index of honeycomb sandwich structures under low-speed oblique impact

Z Wang, X Wang, K Liu, J Zhang, Z Lu - International Journal of Mechanical …, 2021 - Elsevier
It is expected to quantitatively determine the crashworthiness of honeycomb sandwich
structures in engineering. However, it is challenging due to diverse cell features, hybrid …

Processing technologies for Nomex honeycomb composites (NHCs): A critical review

S Ahmad, J Zhang, P Feng, D Yu, Z Wu, M Ke - Composite Structures, 2020 - Elsevier
Nomex honeycomb composites have been paid significant attention for high performance
structural applications in sandwich structures of aircrafts, aerospace, automotive, defense …

Experimental and numerical investigation on in-plane impact behaviour of chiral auxetic structure

D Gao, S Wang, M Zhang, C Zhang - Composite Structures, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents an experimental study on impact behaviour and plastic evolution of
chiral structure subjected to in-plane impact loading using a Split Hopkinson pressure bar …