The dynamic response of end-clamped sandwich and monolithic beams to impact by high-velocity tungsten carbide (WC) particle columns (slugs) has been measured with the aim of developing an understanding of the interaction of ejecta from a shallow-buried explosion with structures. The monolithic beams were made from stainless steel, while the sandwich beams of equal areal mass comprised stainless...

This study introduces the free vibration analysis of multilayered symmetric sandwich Timoshenko beams, made of functionally graded materials with two edge cracked, using the finite element method and linear elastic fracture mechanic theory. The FG beam consists of 50 layers, located symmetrically to the neutral plane, whose material properties distribution change along the beam thickness, accor...

This article presents Navier type closed-form solutions for static bending, elastic buckling and free vibration analysis of symmetric functionally graded (FG) sandwich beams using a hyperbolic shear deformation theory. The beam has FG skins and isotropic core. Material properties of FG skins are varied through the thickness according to the power law distribution. The present theory accounts fo...

The dynamic characteristics and parametric instability of a rotating electrorheological ER sandwich beam with rotary oscillation are numerically analyzed. Assuming that the angular velocity of an ER sandwich beam varies harmonically, the dynamic equation of the rotating beam is first derived based on Hamilton’s principle. Then the coupling and nonlinear equation is discretized and solved by the...

Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) material consisting of a natural or synthetic rubber filled with micron sized iron particles is a smart material whose properties can be controlled by a magnetic field. In this paper, experimental study on the dynamic characteristics of an MRE core embedded sandwich beam is carried out. Frequency responses from experimental results on MRE cored sandwich beams ...

In this paper, a new sandwich beam element is introduced for analyzing structures with flexible core and partially delaminated regions. element, interfaces between the face sheets are modeled by two independent layers. The model uses high-order panel theory to consider flexibility of nonlinearities associated geometry real contact characteristics proposed motion field takes advantage both displ...

The demand for an insert on composite sandwich structures to aid in the arrestment of face-core delamination is of great need. This research studies the use of a damage arrestment device (DAD) that connects the carbon fiber face sheets to the foam core to find whether an increase in the structural integrity of the sandwich beam results. Experimental analysis was employed to test the samples and...