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ADVANCED COMPOSITE MATERIALS
Volume 25, Issue 1, Pages 45-58Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD
DOI: 10.1080/09243046.2014.958302
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sandwich panels; foam core; interfacial fracture toughness; VaRTM
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Core machining is often applied to improve the formativeness of foam core and the manufacturing effectiveness of sandwich panels. This paper investigates the effects of core machining configuration on the interfacial debonding toughness of foam core sandwich panels fabricated by vacuum-assisted resin transfer molding process. Several machining configurations are conducted to foam core, and skin-core debonding toughness of fabricated sandwich panels is evaluated using double-cantilever-beam tests. The sandwich panels with core cuts exhibited higher apparent fracture toughness than the panels without core cut, specifically in the case of perforated core. The relationship between core machining configuration and measured fracture toughness is discussed based on the experimental observations and the numerical analyses of energy release rates.
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