Analysis of Laminated Soft Core Sandwich Plate Having Interfacial Imperfections by an Efficient C0 FE Model

Subject Areas : Engineering

R.P Khandelwal ¹ , A Chakrabarti ² , P Bhargava ³

1 - Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
2 - Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology
3 - Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology

Received: 2012-09-23 Accepted : 2012-11-20 Published : 2012-12-30

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