Sandwich Panel Design

[butelja]

Does anyone know of a good design reference for sandwich panel design? This is common in aerospace (not my field) where a thin skin of strong is placed on each side of a low strength core such as foam or celular nomex. Main areas of interest are face skin buckling and delamination.

 

[Qshake]

Sandwich Panel design that I have done the past, academically only, was with Whitney's "Structural Analysis of Laminated Anisotropic Plates". I thought that this was a good reference and have for years kept it as a reference for generalized plate analysis.

 

[ksuengrng]

butelja:

I have several composite reference handbooks and have listed them here. They all have some good design information on sandwich construction.

Fiber Reinforced Composites - Materials, Manufacturing, & Design; by P.K. Mallick

Principles of Composite Material Mechanics; by Ronald F. Gibson

Design and Manufacture of Composite Structures; by Geoff Eckold

Fundamentals of Composite Manufacturing: Materials, Methods, and Applications; by A. Brent Strong

Composite Materials Handbook; by Mel Schwartz

I found the best information on sandwich construction/design to be in the books by Mallick and Eckold

ksuengrng

 

[JAE]

A company called MetalSpan makes refrigeration panels which are what you describe...a thin layer of metal on each face with a rigid foam interior. Someone there may be able to point you in the right direction:

http://www.metalspan.com

 

[vonlueke]

I wouldn't rate these sites as good design references, but I'll mention them just in case they might help a little in addition to your other resources.

http://femci.gsfc.nasa.gov/hcplate/

http://www.oneoceankayaks.com/Sandcore.htm

 

[vonlueke]

butelja: Check this out, too, as a supplemental reference. Modeling Sandwich,

http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=3scsf5$25u@news.engr.udayton.edu.

I didn't find MIL-HDBK-23A, Structural Sandwich Composites, circa 1968, on-line yet. It might be many MB, and might not be as good as your text book references, above.

 

[aurelio]

Hi the book structural steel design chapter 12. Ronald Press Company and chapter 14 of Bresler, Lin and Scalzi Design of steel structure could help. luck