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An experimental procedure to validate a honeycomb structure

Stasiunas, Eric C.; Carne, Thomas G.; Hinnerichs, Terry D.; Rogillio, Brendan R.

In order to create an analytical model of a material or structure, two sets of experiments must be performed-calibration and validation. Calibration experiments provide the analyst with the parameters from which to build a model that encompasses the behavior of the material. Once the model is calibrated, the new analytical results must be compared with a different, independent set of experiments, referred to as the validation experiments. This modeling procedure was performed for a crushable honeycomb material, with the validation experiments presented here. This paper covers the design of the validation experiments, the analysis of the resulting data, and the metric used for model validation.