Sandwich construction is widely accepted as a method of construction especially in the aircraft industry. It is a type of stressed skin construction formed by bonding two thin faces to a thick core, the faces resist all of the applied edge loads and provide all or nearly all of the required rigidities, the core spaces the faces to increase cross section moment of inertia about common neutral ax...

This article reports an experimental study carried out with the aim of quantifying performance and failure modes of sandwich structures when subjected to impulsive blast loading. In particular, performance enhancement with respect to solid panels of equal mass per unit area is assessed. Likewise, the optimal distribution of the mass per unit area in the design of sandwich structures is investig...

X iv :1 70 4. 01 92 2v 1 [ m at h. C O ] 6 A pr 2 01 7 Sandwiches Missing Two Ingredients of Order Four José D. Alvarado Simone Dantas Dieter Rautenbach 1 Instituto de Matemática e Estat́ıstica, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Niterói, Brazil [email protected], [email protected] 2 Institute of Optimization and Operations Research, Ulm University, Ulm, Germany dieter.rautenbach@uni-ul...

The ship hull structure is composed of plates and stiffened panels. Estimating the maximum load-carrying capacity, or ultimate strength, these structural components fundamental. One main challenges nowadays implementation new materials technologies to enhance integrity, economy, safety environmentally friendly design ship’s structure. A solution may be represented by aluminium alloy honeycomb s...

Abstract Sandwich panels’ exceptional mechanical properties and low density, owing to their multifunctional characteristics innovative design, made them a popular choice in numerous industries. panels with cellular cores are known for energy absorption properties, which make effective absorbers high-impact scenarios such as accidents or explosions. For advancing research on sandwich panels, it ...

In a recent paper, we introduced the simultaneous representation problem (defined for any graph class C) and studied the problem for chordal, comparability and permutation graphs. For interval graphs, the problem is defined as follows. Two interval graphs G1 and G2, sharing some vertices I (and the corresponding induced edges), are said to be “simultaneous interval graphs” if there exist interv...

Obstacle representations of graphs have been investigated quite intensely over the last few years. We focus on graphs that can be represented by a single obstacle. Given a (topologically open) polygon C and a finite set P of points in general position in the complement of C, the visibility graph GC(P ) has a vertex for each point in P and an edge pq for any two points p and q in P that can see ...