Structural Performance Rectangular Honeycomb Core Sandwich Panels

Abstract

The focus has then been shifted to describing the experimental methodology adopted in this research. A variety of tests were performed to establish the structural capacity of RHCSP under the isolated effect of shear, out-of-plane compression and two-way flexural behavior under centered patch loads. These tests were essential for the development and validation of analytical expressions for predicting the capacity of the panels to several failure modes, which are introduced in Chapter 5 and form the basis of a design method for RHCSP. More importantly, the next chapter focuses on the validation of detailed numerical models against these experimental results, so as to achieve a reliable and computationally efficient methodology for assessing the structural behavior of RHCSP under different loading and support conditions.