Peel strength studies on sandwich composites

• Main Author: Ang, Benny Sheng Wei
• Other Authors: Sunil Chandrakant Joshi
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Composite materials; DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering::Materials of construction
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/46052
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Sandwich composites are deemed to be the future skin of aircraft. Newer aircrafts such as the Boeing Dreamliner have been adopting aircraft skins composed of up to 50% of composite structures. However, the aviation industry is hesitating to use 100% composite structures due to the many problems sand...