A Self Healing Smart Syntactic Foam Based Grid Stiffened Sandwich Structure

Syntactic foams are composite materials synthesized by dispersing microballoons in a polymeric, ceramic or metallic matrix. In the past three decades, syntactic foams have gained immense importance as a lightweight and damage-tolerant material when used in foam-cored sandwich structures. Because of...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John, Manu Kuruvila
Other Authors: Li, Guoqiang
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: LSU 2009
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Online Access:http://etd.lsu.edu/docs/available/etd-11052009-182059/