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Study of edge effects in laminated sandwich specimens

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Date Issued:
1989
Summary:
Different methods have been employed to calculate the interlaminar stresses and to study the edge effect in a laminated sandwich specimens under uniaxial tension. However, Finite Element Analysis and Force Balance Method produced stress values which disagreed in both magnitude and sign, a controversy which exists in the case of composite laminates also. Experimental methods, photoelastic coating method and strain gaging, were attempted to obtain the strain distribution on the top surface of a sandwich specimen in three point bending. However, these conventional methods failed to show the sharp strain gradient that exists near the free edge. The Force Balance Method was simplified for sandwich specimens by considering the face laminate as a homogeneous and orthotropic material with averaged properties. Simplified expressions were also obtained for calculating the boundary layer thickness. The boundary layer thickness was found to vary linearly with core thickness for the cases considered.
Title: Study of edge effects in laminated sandwich specimens.
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Name(s): Mankuzhy, Pradeep Prabhakaran.
Florida Atlantic University, Degree grantor
Merry, Stephanie L., Thesis advisor
College of Engineering and Computer Science
Department of Ocean and Mechanical Engineering
Type of Resource: text
Genre: Electronic Thesis Or Dissertation
Issuance: monographic
Date Issued: 1989
Publisher: Florida Atlantic University
Place of Publication: Boca Raton, Fla.
Physical Form: application/pdf
Extent: 110 p.
Language(s): English
Summary: Different methods have been employed to calculate the interlaminar stresses and to study the edge effect in a laminated sandwich specimens under uniaxial tension. However, Finite Element Analysis and Force Balance Method produced stress values which disagreed in both magnitude and sign, a controversy which exists in the case of composite laminates also. Experimental methods, photoelastic coating method and strain gaging, were attempted to obtain the strain distribution on the top surface of a sandwich specimen in three point bending. However, these conventional methods failed to show the sharp strain gradient that exists near the free edge. The Force Balance Method was simplified for sandwich specimens by considering the face laminate as a homogeneous and orthotropic material with averaged properties. Simplified expressions were also obtained for calculating the boundary layer thickness. The boundary layer thickness was found to vary linearly with core thickness for the cases considered.
Identifier: 14523 (digitool), FADT14523 (IID), fau:11321 (fedora)
Collection: FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection
Note(s): College of Engineering and Computer Science
Thesis (M.S.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1989.
Subject(s): Sandwich construction--Fatigue
Composite materials
Strains and stresses
Structural analysis (Engineering)
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