Compression test of composite sandwich panel

Composite materials are used in aerospace structures due to their considerable bending stiffness and strength-to-weight ratio. A composite sandwich is composed of a face-sheet and an aluminum core. The face-sheet of the sandwich takes the bending stress and core of sandwich. takes the shear stress. A compression test and FEM analysis accomplished about composite sandwich panels that have curvature. The FEM analysis was performed using a commercial code, ANSYS and the compression test was performed until failure occurred in the sandwich panel. A strain gauge and a displacement gauge were used to acquire the data. In this paper, the failure strength and failure mode was checked. Additionally, the results of the test and analysis were compared.