Influence of interfacial adhesive on impact and post-impact behaviors of CFRP/end-grain balsawood sandwich composites

Light-weight sandwich composites can be tailored to satisfy many specific application requirements and are inevitable for modern structures where reduced weight is extremely critical. However, these structures are highly vulnerable to debonding at the skin-core interface. The skin-core adhesion is an extremely crucial part of a sandwich structure; mostly responsible for transferring load and maintaining integrity between the components. Keeping...