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Volume 12, Issue 6, 2003

Strength of Sandwich Panel ‘Cut and Fold’ Joints

N. Joulia and S.M. Grove

ACMC, School of Engineering, University of Plymouth, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK

(Received 7/03; accepted 12/03)

Abstract

Right-angle ‘cut and fold’ joints in aluminium-honeycomb sandwich panels have been tested for strength and stiffness. The results indicate that joint strength increases with adhesive content, and that simple modifications to the way in which the core is cut can result in significantly higher strengths

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