A presentation on a sandwich panel

composed of skins and fibres

reinforced polymer truss core

Presented to:
Dr. Atif Javaid
Presented by:
Muneer Ahmad (2016-PE-40)
Yusra Khalid (2016-PE-11)
Wajahat Ghulam Rasool (2016-PE-12)
Mechanical behavior of a sandwich panel
composed of hybrid skins and novel glass
fiber reinforced polymer truss core

• Mineral-glass fiber reinforced polymer (GFRP) skins and a GFRP truss core
• The compressive and shear specific strengths of the panels were assessed
Manufacturing process
• Two stage process
• GFRP connectors were firstly inserted in the polyurethane foam
• The second stage of the manufacturing process involved firstly the positioning of
a non-crimp glass fabric
• Then, the vacuum infusion of a vinyl-ester matrix was performed to lead to a
truss core GFRP sandwich structure
 Tests
• Compression test
• Shear test
• Three point bending test Illustration of the specimen failure under compression loading.

Fig : under 3-point bending load (a) Connector buckling (b)

Mineral layer delamination
Specimen failure under shear loading.
Effect of temperature on the compressive behavior
of carbon fiber composite pyramidal truss cores
sandwich panels with reinforced frames

• The effect of temperature on the out-of-plane compressive properties

and failure mechanism of carbon fiber/epoxy composite pyramidal
truss cores sandwich panels (CF/CPTSP).
Fig. 1. Illustration of the manufacturing route of CF/CPTSP.
Fig. 4. (a) Effect of temperature on the stiffness of composite struts; (b) Strength
of composite struts as a function of temperature (solid curve: fitted data, data
points: experimental data).

Fig. 6. (a) Comparison of the predicted and measured stiffness of CF/CPTSP with Fig. 5. Different failure modes of pyramidal truss core sandwich panels with
temperature change; (b) Comparison of the predicted and measured strength of temperature variation. (a) −90◦C; (b) −70◦C; (c) −50◦C; (d) −30◦C; (e) 25◦C; (f) 80◦C;
pyramidal truss core sandwich panels with temperature change (g) 120◦C; (i) 160◦C; (j) 180◦C.