Composite materials are used in aerospace structures due to their considerable bending
stiffness and strength-to-weight ratio. A composite sandwich is composed of a face-sheet and an
aluminum core. The face-sheet of the sandwich takes the bending stress and core of sandwich takes
the shear stress. A compression test and FEM analysis accomplished about composite sandwich
panels that have curvature. The FEM analysis was performed using a commercial code, ANSYS and
the compression test was performed until failure occurred in the sandwich panel. A strain gauge and a
displacement gauge were used to acquire the data. In this paper, the failure strength and failure mode
was checked. Additionally, the results of the test and analysis were compared.