The composite materials testing community is moving toward the use of the terms long beam flexure and short beam flexure when addressing sandwich panel testing. The former is used to determine ...

This column will introduce sandwich panel test methods in general. Detailed discussions of the individual test methods will be presented in future columns. Sandwich panels will be defined here as ...

In nature as well as industry we can see the idea of a three-layered robust structure: bird wings which make the flying process happen for the birds and in the robustness of human skulls one can see ...