In this paper, the dynamic analysis of the composite sandwich truncated conical shells (STCS) with various boundary conditions subjected to the low velocity impact was studied analytically, based on the higher order sandwich panel theory. The impact was assumed to occur normally over the top face-sheet, and the contact force history was predicted using two solution models of the motion which we...

Elastic plates can be described by a two-dimensional theory, if the characteristic length of the stress state along the plate, l; is much bigger than the plate thickness, h: If all elastic moduli of a laminated plate are of the same order, no matter how many lamina the plate has, then the normal to the mid-surface of the plane remain normal in the course of deformation, and the deformation of t...

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...

This study analyzes the free vibration, forced vibration, resonance, and stress wave propagation of orthotropic sandwich plates made of functionally graded materials (FGMs). Dynamic analyses are conducted using a mesh-free method based on first-order shear deformation theory and the shape functions constructed using moving least squares approximation. The sandwich plates are rested on a Pastern...

Since the development of the calculus of variations there has been interest in finding critical points of functionals. This was intensified by the fact that for many equations arising in practice the solutions are critical points of functionals. If a functional G is semibounded, one can find a Palais-Smale (PS) sequence G(uk) → a, G(uk) → 0. These sequences produce critical points if they have ...

panels with a genetic algorithm, Applied Acoustics, Volume 70, Issue 3, March 2009, Pages 416-425, ISSN 0003-682X, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.06.003. 1 Optimal design of acoustical sandwich panels with a genetic algorithm Tongan Wang, Shan Li, Steven R. Nutt 1. University of Southern California, 3651 Watts Way, VHE 602, Los Angeles, CA 90089, United States Abstract: An optimizati...

Loss of Sandwich Panels by Statistical Energy Analysis Approach. ASME. J. Vib. Acoust.2010;132(1):011004-011004-7. doi:10.1115/1.4000459. Predicting the Sound Transmission Loss of Sandwich Panels by Statistical Energy Analysis Approach Tongan Wang, Shan Li, Shankar Rajaram, Steven R. Nutt 1. University of Southern California, 3651 Watt Way, VHE 602, Los Angeles, CA 90089 Abstract: A statistical...

Vibration of laminated composite and sandwich plate under thermal loading is studied in this paper. A refined higher order theory has been used for the purpose. In order to avoid stress oscillations observed in the implementation of a displacement based finite element, the stress field derived from temperature (initial strains) have been made consistent with total strain field. So far no study ...

the present note arises from the author's talk at the conference ``ischia group theory 2014''. for subgroups $fle n$ of a group $g$ denote by $lat(f,n)$ the set of all subgroups of $n$, containing $f$. let $d$ be a subgroup of $g$. in this note we study the lattice $ll=lat(d,g)$ and the lattice $ll'$ of subgroups of $g$, normalized by $d$. we say that $ll$ satisfies sandwich classification theo...

A higher-order sandwich theory is implemented in conjunction with an equivalent mobility-based power flow progressive method to determine power flow for a sandwich configured floating raft vibration isolation system. The power spectrum changes in whole frequency range effectively when core materials’ properties change. It is also shown that the loss factors of the sandwich configured floating r...