dent on the strut thickness and also to a significant extent on the thickness of the unbonded face sheet. The load bearing capability of a series of pads, having a strut height of 2.69 in. and an unbonded face sheet thickness of 0.234 in. and strut thicknesses ranging from 0.10 to 0.22 in., was found to be proportional to the strut thickness raised to the 2.5 power. Another series of pads in which the strut height is 2.80 in. and the unbonded face sheet is only 0.125 in. gave load bearing characteristics proportional to the strut thickness raised to the 2.1 power. As a result of the relatively greater contribution that distortions of the face sheet make to the deformation of the pad, pads having thinner face sheets exhibit less sensitivity of C-D characteristics to strut thickness.Over the range of pad geometries studied, essentially the same compressive stress-percent deflection characteristics result from proportionally linear variations in strut height and thickness. This permits further dimensioning of pad thicknesses by adjusting strut thickness in proportion to the required change in strut height.Literature Cited