@article{afe74db5282e468b910f5790aced8557,
title = "Fracture properties of novel aluminum foam sandwich structures",
abstract = "The fracture properties and impact response of a glass fiber reinforced polypropylene sandwich structure are investigated based on a high performance closed cell aluminum foam. The skin-core interfacial fracture properties are analyzed through a simple fracture mechanics test using the three point bend sandwich geometry. A number of impact tests are conducted on simple beam-type samples to study the failure process under dynamic loading conditions.",
author = "Cantwell, {W. J.} and P. Compston and G. Reyes",
note = "Funding Information: The authors are grateful to the Mexican Government (CONACYT) and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council for supporting this work. The donations of glass fiber reinforced polypropylene by Sandra Coburn of BI Composites Ltd., the Fusabond M613-05 by Dr. Karlheinz Hausmann of DuPont de Nemours and the aluminum foam by Dr. Jerry Lord of the National Physical Laboratory are also gratefully acknowledged.",
year = "2000",
doi = "10.1023/A:1006700218661",
language = "British English",
volume = "19",
pages = "2205--2208",
journal = "Journal of Materials Science Letters",
issn = "0261-8028",
publisher = "Chapman & Hall",
number = "24",
}