Modelling of low-energy/low-velocity impact on Nomex honeycomb sandwich structures with metallic skins

• Main Authors: Castanie, Bruno, Bouvet, Christophe, Aminanda, Yulfian, Barrau, Jean-Jacques, Thevenet, Pascal
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2008
• Subjects: TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery
• Online Access: http://irep.iium.edu.my/6282/1/IJIE_Article_final.pdf; http://irep.iium.edu.my/6282/; http://www.elsevier.com/locate/ijimpeng

In the aircraft industry, manufacturers have to decide quickly whether an impacted sandwich needs repairing or not. Certain computation tools exist at present but they are very time-consuming and they also fail to perfectly model the physical phenomena involved in an impact. In a previous publicatio...