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An investigation on the structural performance of inserts within honeycomb sandwich panels is presented. The investigation considers metallic inserts in all aluminum sandwich panels and emphasis is placed on the structural performance difference between hot bonded and cold bonded inserts. The former are introduced during panel manufacture while the latter are potted into existing panels. The investigation focuses on the static performance of the two insert systems subject to loads in the normal direction to the facing plane. The experimental part of the work presented involved carrying out pullout tests on hot bonded and cold bonded reference samples by loading them at a centrally located insert. The experimental results were compared with results from an analytical model and results from a finite element model. Contrary to what was expected it was found from the experiments that the cold bonded inserts outperformed the hot bonded inserts in terms of load carrying capability. From the finite element study it was found that this was mainly due to the difference in stiffness of the different filler materials used in the two insert systems.

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inserts sandwich composite honeycomb.

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Static Performance of Hot Bonded and Cold Bonded Inserts in Honeycomb Panels

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