The use of fibre-reinforced plastics (FRPs) in sandwich structures increased for various industrial applications thanks to their strength-to-weight ratio which provides designers with advanced options modern structures. FRP Sandwich Structures (FRPSS) are often used aerospace, biomedical, defence, and marine products, where high structural performance is required sustain complex in-service load...

TIlls paper describes the design and manufacture of a multifunctional space structure. The analytical techniques used in this project included thermal analyses of structures in various earth orbits, determination of structural requirements from optical performance calculations, designing of near zero Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE) laminates, consideration of manufacturing and material v...

This study presents a free vibration analysis of asymmetric sandwich structures comparatively. Sandwich were manufactured by the hand-layup vacuum bagging method. Symmetric and analyzed experimentally to evaluate effect asymmetry on characteristic structures. Free was performed using VIBXPERT II under clamped-free boundary conditions. The frequency response function (FRF) is obtained from modal...

Delamination caused by low velocity impact is one of the most frequent cases of damage in sandwich composite materials. When delamination is present the ability of the material to withstand structural loading is limited [1, 2]. In many cases, a local repair of a damaged sandwich structure is preferable over replacement for economical, mechanical and environmental reasons. Bonded repairs are wid...

Deciding whether a collection of unrooted trees is compatible is a fundamental problem in phylogenetics. Two different graph-theoretic characterizations of tree compatibility have recently been proposed. In one of these, tree compatibility is characterized in terms of the existence of a specific kind of triangulation in a structure known as the display graph. An alternative characterization exp...

The P4-sparse Graph Sandwich Problem asks, given two graphs G 1 = (V, E1) and G2 = (V, E2), whether there exists a graph G = (V, E) such that E1 ⊆ E ⊆ E2 and G is P4-sparse. In this paper we present a polynomial-time algorithm for solving the Graph Sandwich Problem for P4-sparse graphs. c © 2008 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

In this paper we introduce the simultaneous membership problem, defined for any graph class C characterized in terms of representations, e.g. any class of intersection graphs. Two graphs G1 and G2, sharing some vertices X (and the corresponding induced edges), are said to be simultaneous members of graph class C, if there exist representations R1 and R2 of G1 and G2 that are “consistent” on X ....

A graph is a 1-join composition if its vertex set can be partitioned into four nonempty sets AL; AR ; SL and SR such that: every vertex of AL is adjacent to every vertex of AR; no vertex of SL is adjacent to vertex of AR∪SR; no vertex of SR is adjacent to a vertex of AL∪SL. The graph sandwich problem for 1-join composition is de9ned as follows: Given a vertex set V , a forced edge set E, and a ...

Because of the complex nature of structural characteristics, damage detection in honeycomb sandwich structures inherently carries many challenges. In the study, effects of debonding on leaky guided wave propagation in honeycomb sandwich structures are first studied by using the finite element method. A surface-bonded piezoelectric wafer actuator/sensor network is used for elastic-guided wave pr...

Failure maps of sandwich panels such as beam, plate and shell are of great importance in designing such structures. In this paper, failure maps of sandwich beams with composite skin and honeycomb core are obtained. The effect of transverse shear in skins and core and the effect of double walls of honeycomb core have been taken into account. Shear deformation of skins and core are assumed to be ...