Honeycomb sandwich panels are high strength, lightweight structures that are used in a variety of applications to provide strength in tension.  They have the core of the shape of a honeycomb, which is sandwiched between two facing skins, hence the name. They are used extensively in aerospace, automotive and many other industries for providing the benefits of high stiffness, durability and excellent rigidity at minimal weight.

Sandwich structures are frequently used to maximize stiffness at very low weights. Their properties depend on a number of parameters like the cell size, core wall thickness and strength of the web material. Therefore, it is important to accurately quantify the effect of these parameters on the sandwich panel behavior. What will follow now is a series of workshops to assess the quality of a honeycomb sandwich panel under loading.  We will use the design exploration tools in Isight to study the design space of the honeycomb structure and find the best design that meets the requirement of being lightweight while satisfying constraints on maximum stress and maximum deflection allowed.

These workshops will demonstrate the process of building a process flow in Isight, but the major focus will be on interpretation of results; i.e. to be able to make meaningful conclusions out of tones of data using the post processing tools in Isight.

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