Sandwich panels have the best stiffness-to-lightness ratio, which is what makes them very useful in industrial applications. This paper is focused on a study of the buckling capacities of the core components under uniaxial compression. The critical buckling loads for various core densities and materials of honeycomb panels were experimentally and numerically investigated. The specimens under lateral loading showed three zones: zone 1 is the initial elastic state, followed by the plateau region in zone 2, while zone 3 shows a monotonically stiffening region, associated with the densification of the material. The effect of the core density and its materials on the behavior and the damage was highlighted. From the experiment it is clear that the buckling load of the specimens increases as the core density is increasing. In terms of stiffness and load at failure, the honeycomb sandwich panel had better mechanical characteristics than its components. The study also calculated the numerical buckling loads of the panels using the ABAQUS finite-element analysis program. The achieved experimental and numerical results were compared with each other. In conclusion, a good correlation between theory and experiment was found. Keywords: honeycomb sandwich panel, buckling analysis, compression, finite-element method, collapse Sendvi~ni paneli imajo najbolj{e razmerje med togostjo in maso. To jih dela primerne za industrijsko uporabo. Ta~lanek je usmerjen v {tudij zdr`ljivosti za upogibanje klju~nih komponent pri enoosni tla~ni obremenitvi. Eksperimentalno in numeri~no so bile preiskane kriti~ne upogibne obremenitve za razli~ne klju~ne gostote in material satastih plo{~. Vzorci, stransko obremenjeni, so pokazali tri podro~ja: podro~je 1 je za~etno elasti~no stanje, ki mu sledi podro~je platoja, tj. podro~je 2. Podro~je 3 prikazuje monotono upogibanje, povezano z zgo{~evanjem materiala. Ocenjen je bil vpliv klju~ne gostote in materialov glede vedenja in po{kodb. Iz preizkusov je razvidno, da z nara{~anjem klju~ne gostote nara{~a tudi odpornost proti upogibni obremenitvi vzorcev. Glede na upogibanje in obremenitev pri poru{itvi ima satasta sendvi~na plo{~a bolj{e mehanske lastnosti v primerjavi z njenimi komponentami. V {tudiji je tudi izra~unana numeri~na upogibna obremenitev panelov z analizo kon~nih elementov s programom ABAQUS. Primerjani so dobljeni eksperimentalni in numeri~ni rezultati. Dobljena je bila dobra korelacija med teorijo in eksperimentalnimi rezultati. Klju~ne besede: satasta sendvi~na plo{~a, analiza upogibanja, tla~enje, metoda kon~nih elementov, poru{itev