Fabric‐reinforced cement, folded plate

Abstract

Vistarp Karbhari and Robert Nicholls, Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Delaware, show that sandwich panels, having fabric‐reinforced cement mortar faces with triangularly folded cores, can be designed to maximize flexural stiffness per unit material cost. The authors suggest that a wide variety of loading conditions could be satisfied from stock sheet, folded to structural engineers’ individual designs.