Free vibration of formed sandwich panel

Abstract In this paper, the free vibration of prefabricated architectural sandwich panels is studied. The core of the sandwich panel is approximated by finite prisms and the thin faces are modelled by finite strips. The finite prism-strip method is simple to program and saves considerable computing effort when compared with the finite element method. In this paper, only the dynamic characteristics of flat faced homogeneous sandwich panels are compared with results obtained by other methods, and also with the analytical solutions. Several examples are also presented for the free vibration of prefabricated architectural sandwich panels.