The failure behavior and load-carrying capacity of Nomex honeycomb sandwich panels under three-point bending are experimentally and numerically studied. The failure modes observed in experiments are core shear failure and face-sheet/core debonding. A detailed model considering Nomex paper and resin coating is built with Abaqus/explicit simulation. The Hill 1948 quadratic anisotropic yield criteria are adopted to describe the plastic behavior of Nomex paper and the principal stress criteria are used for predicting the failure of resin coating. The effectiveness of the proposed meso-scale model is validated by comparing the experimental and the numerical results. The effects of geometric parameters on the bending behaviors are discussed in detail. It is shown that the ultimate force and bending stiffness of Nomex honeycomb sandwich panels is significantly influenced by the core orientation, resin thickness and cell size. The cutting position has no effect on the ultimate force and bending stiffness.
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