Original Article
  • Assessment of Interfacial Reliability of Adhesive-Free CFRP Sandwich Structures under Mode-II–Dominated Flexural Loading

  • Woo Cheol Jang*, Won Jong Jeong**, Young Jin Shim***, Sang Ha Hwang***, Hyung Doh Roh*†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering and BK21 Four ERICA-ACE Center
    ** Department of Mechanical Engineering, Hanyang University ERICA
    *** Materials Science and Chemical Engineering Center, Institute for Advanced Engineering (IAE)

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Correspondence to

  • Hyung Doh Roh

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering and BK21 Four ERICA-ACE Center

  • E-mail: rhd1213@hanyang.ac.kr