Journal Published Online: 01 October 2003
Volume 25, Issue 4

Wrinkling of Zebra Skin Sandwich Panels

CODEN: JCTRER

Abstract

The wrinkling, or skin buckling, behavior of sandwich panels with skins consisting of equally spaced strips was investigated. These so-called zebra skin sandwiches proved to be superior to full skin sandwiches in terms of weight and wrinkling strength. Two and three-dimensional finite element analyses were performed and the full skin sandwich results were compared to various results in the open literature. An approximate analytical estimate, using Euler-Bernoulli kinematics in the skin and a simple exponentially decaying field in the core, was derived and compared with finite element results.

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Bekisli, B
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Grenestedt, JL
Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA
Pages: 6
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Stock #: CTR10960J
ISSN: 0884-6804
DOI: 10.1520/CTR10960J