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Sandwich design of composite panels
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Sandwich design of composite panels

Sandwich design of composite panels

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Does anyone know of a method to calculate the stresses and deflections for a sandwich type panel with edge loading in a beam type problem?
Normally, the panels have fiberglass facings top and bottom with a honeycomb core, and the loading is normal to the facing, similar to a floor panel.
In the case that I am looking at, the loading is parallel to the facing.

RE: Sandwich design of composite panels

The foam core panel formulas I've seen are for isotropic (sp?) cores ie cores that have the same properties in all directions.  They basically calc bearing resistance and buckling.

You will need to also check the shear value for the honeycomb to panel bonding in case is is lower than the shear strength of the honeycomb.

RE: Sandwich design of composite panels

See the text “Cellular Solids: Structure and Properties” by Gibson and Ashby for these type of equations.  There is a nice coverage of the mechanics of honeycomb and foam structures as well as the sandwich structures in this text.

I don’t have the text with me right now, but I could dig up my copy of the book and post eqns if you don’t get any other responses.

RE: Sandwich design of composite panels

Spike,

Hexcel company has a design manual for composite sandwich structures with relevant equations for beam type loading and edge wise loading conditions with failure modes and such. It is pretty good and below is the URL where you can find it.

http://www.hexcel.com/NR/rdonlyres/80127A98-7DF2-4D06-A7B3-7EFF685966D2/0/7586_HexWeb_Sand_Design.pdf

The information in the manual looks like it comes from the now cancelled Military Handbook 23 (MIL-HDBK-23), Design of Sandwich Structures. If you need to go all out in the analysis then MIL-HDBK-23 may be worth trying to procure.

Regards,
MNLiasion

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