Bendable metal-based composite sheets with a truncated dome core made of carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics

Bendable metal-based composite sheets with a truncated dome core made of CFRTP (carbon fibre reinforced thermoplastics) were developed to expand the range of applications and improve the mechanical properties of sandwich structures. The newly proposed truncated dome core structure was composed of a periodic array of domes which were introduced into an initially flat CFRTP sheet through stamping. Theoretical analyses were conducted to determine...