In aeronautics, sandwich structures are widely used for secondary structures like flaps, landing gear doors or commercial equipment. The technologies used to join these kinds of structures are numerous: direct bonding or joining, tapered areas, T-joints, etc. The most common is certainly the use of local reinforcement called an insert. The insert technologies are numerous and this study focuses on high load bearing capacity inserts. They were made with a resin moulded in the Nomex trademark sandwich core. Such structures are still designed mainly empirically and the lack of efficient numerical models remains a problem. In this study, pull-out tests were conducted on a representative sample and the non-linearities and the types of failure were analysed. Core shear bucking, failures of the potting and perforation of the composites skins are the main modes of failure. For each mode, local experimental and numerical analysis was carried out that led to the identification of the independent non-linear behaviour of each component. Including the results in a global non-linear finite element model gave good prediction of the failure scenario and an acceptable correlation with the tests.


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