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More sandwich failure modes

This figure is discussed in Fig. 6 of the PowerPoint presentation, 1997.sandwich.ppt, of the 1997 sandwich paper. Shown here are more failure modes pertaining to sandwich wall construction. PANDA2 includes two margins corresponding to the five behaviors depicted here: core tensile failure, and face sheet pull-off.

REFERENCE:
Bitzer, T. N., “Aluminum honeycomb flatwise tensile strengths”, Hexcel Corporation, Dublin, California, Report LSR 932480, January 1988

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