Structures: Marine Sandwich

Abstract

Sandwich composite panels are being primarily utilized in many engineering sectors such as civil, infrastructure, mechanical, aerospace, marine, space, and nuclear industry primarily because of their high strength and stiffness to low weight ratio. This article considers primarily sandwich composite construction that is typically utilized in the marine industry. This article discusses the application areas of sandwich composite panels in the marine industry, material utilized as component materials for the sandwich composite construction, the manufacturing methodologies, the novel methodologies that are applied to sandwich composite construction, and different experimental procedures utilized for sandwich composite structures.

Investigating the effect of honeycomb grid cell size on structural performance of stiffened syntactic foam core sandwich composite

“…In the present work, the concept of confining foam in the cells of a honeycomb grid structure [18][19][20][21][22][23] is adopted to improve the mechanical properties of syntactic foam core composite sandwich panels. Syntactic foam is a composite prepared by reinforcing the desired proportions (50:50) of dry fly ash cenospheres in a phenol formaldehyde thermoset polymer resin matrix.…”