Buckling of Honeycomb Sandwiches: Periodic Finite Element Considerations
D. H. Pahr1, F.G. Rammerstorfer1
CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.12, No.3, pp. 229-242, 2006, DOI:10.3970/cmes.2006.012.229
Abstract Sandwich structures are efficient lightweight materials. Due to there design they exhibit very special failure modes such as global buckling, shear crimping, facesheet wrinkling, facesheet dimpling, and face/core yielding. The core of the sandwich is usually made of foams or cellular materials, e.g., honeycombs. Especially in the case of honeycomb cores the correlation between analytical buckling predictions and experiments might be poor (Ley, Lin, and Uy (1999)). The reason for this lies in the fact that analytical formulae typically assume a homogeneous core (continuous support of the facesheets). This work highlights problems of honeycomb core… More >