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Global and local antisymmetric buckling of sandwich beam under axial compression

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Marc-Andre Douville (1,2) and Philippe Le Grognec (1)
(1) Mines Douai, Polymers and Composites Technology & Mechanical Engineering Department, 941 rue Charles Bourseul – CS 10838, 59508 Douai Cedex, France
(2) Université de Lyon, CNRS, INSA-Lyon, LaMCoS UMR5259, 69621 Villeurbanne Cedex, France

“Exact analytical solutions for the local and global buckling of sandwich beam-columns under various loadings”, International Journal of Solids and Structures, Vol. 50, Nos. 16-17, pp 2597-2609, August 2013, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2013.04.013

ABSTRACT: Sandwich structures are widely used in many industrial applications, due to the attractive combination of a lightweight and strong mechanical properties. This compromise is realized thanks to the presence of different parts in the composite material, namely the skins and possibly core reinforcements or thin-walled core structure which are both thin/slender and stiff relative to the other parts, namely the homogeneous core material, if any. The buckling phenomenon thus becomes mainly responsible for the final collapse of such sandwiches. In this paper, classical sandwich beam-columns (with homogeneous core materials) are considered and elastic buckling analyses are performed in order to derive the critical values and the associated bifurcation modes under various loadings (compression and pure bending). The two faces are represented by Euler–Bernoulli beams, whereas the core material is considered as a 2D continuous solid. A set of partial differential equations is first obtained from a general bifurcation analysis, using the above assumptions. Original closed-form analytical solutions of the critical loading and mode of a sandwich beam-column are then derived for various loading conditions. Finally, the proposed analytical formulae are validated using 2D linearized buckling finite element computations, and parametric analyses are performed.

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