Mechanical Behavior of Aluminum Sandwiches Made by Laser Welding

Procedia Engineering 109 ( 2015 ) 427 – 434

Available online at www.sciencedirect.com

1877-7058 © 2015 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).

Peer-review under responsibility of the Gruppo Italiano Frattura (IGF)

doi: 10.1016/j.proeng.2015.06.256

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b_{Department of Industrial Engineering University of, Rome "Tor Vergata" Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 Rome – Italy} c_{Department of Enterprise Engineering University of Rome "Tor Vergata" Via del Politecnico, 1 - 00133 Rome – Italy}

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