Crush dynamics of square honeycomb sandwich cores

Crush dynamics of square honeycomb sandwich cores

Square honeycombs are effective as cores for all-metal sandwich plates in that they combine excellent crushing strength and energy absorption with good stiffness and strength in out-of-plane shear and in-plane stretch. In applications where sandwich plates must absorb significant energy in crushing under intense impulsive loads, dynamic effects play a significant role in the behaviour of the co...

Effect of Core Crush on Honeycomb Sandwich Panels

Nomex honeycomb is used as the predominate core material in aerospace standard sandwich structure. To provide aerospace standard composite face sheets it is necessary to cure the sandwich structure in an autoclave at elevated pressure. The honeycomb material is capable of withstanding the forces experienced through its thickness, but the lateral forces applied by the elevated pressure cause a c...

Quasi-Static Three-Point Bending of Carbon Fiber Sandwich Beams With Square Honeycomb Cores

Sandwich beams comprising identical face sheets and a square honeycomb core were manufactured from carbon fiber composite sheets. Analytical expressions were derived for four competing collapse mechanisms of simply supported and clamped sandwich beams in three-point bending: core shear, face microbuckling, face wrinkling, and indentation. Selected geometries of sandwich beams were tested to ill...

Assessment of Effective Elastic Properties of Honeycomb Cores by Finite Element Analysis of Sandwich Panels

Thermostructural Analysis of Honeycomb Sandwich Panels

Abstract The thermal analysis is performed on a heated Inconel 617 honeycomb-core sandwich panel. Sandwich panel is supported at its four edges with spar-like sub-structures that acted as heat sinks, which are generally not considered in the classical analysis. One side of the panel is subjected to a heat flux on the surface. Two types of surface heating were considered: (1) hexagonal honeycomb...