Mechanical Behaviour of Glass Fibre-Reinforced Polymer/Polyvinyl Chloride Foam Cored Sandwich Structures

Table 3

Absorbed energy and peak load for sandwich panels on 3PB.

Specimen	Absorbed energy (J)	3PB peak load (kN)
A10-4	13.18	1.43 ± 0.13
A10-8	14.31	1.52 ± 0.35
C10-4	15.23	1.67 ± 0.09
C10-8	28.10	3.10 ± 0.61
E10-4	11.33	1.44 ± 0.55
E10-8	12.71	1.83 ± 0.20
A15-4	13.95	1.18 ± 0.16
A15-8	27.44	1.82 ± 0.04
C15-4	9.33	1.38 ± 0.38
C15-8	38.39	2.87 ± 0.19
E15-4	12.32	1.20 ± 0.11
E15-8	26.66	1.30 ± 0.37
A20-4	8.66	1.50 ± 0.21
A20-8	10.60	1.68 ± 0.08
C20-4	10.94	1.79 ± 0.24
C20-8	17.33	3.04 ± 0.63
E20-4	17.51	1.71 ± 0.49
E20-8	16.77	2.62 ± 0.14