Free Vibration Analysis of Sandwich Plates with a Uniformly Distributed Attached Mass, Flexible Core, and Different Boundary Conditions

The free vibration analysis of rectangular sandwich plates with a flexible core both with and without a uniformly distributed attached mass on the top facesheet is carried out using the finite element method (FEM) through ANSYS parametric design language, which is validated by several literatures through some numerical examples. The model uses the 8-node shell 99 element to model the composite laminates of the top and bottom facesheets of the sandwich plate and 20-node high-order solid 95 element in order to model the flexible PVC core. The validated finite element model is then used to study the parametric effects of geometry such as aspect ratio, length-to-thickness ratio, core thickness-to-plate thickness ratio, the size and the stiffness of the attached mass on the natural frequencies of the sandwich plate as well as the normal and shear stresses. The use of FEM also allows studying the effect of different boundary conditions for both the top and the bottom facesheets of sandwich plates with or without distributed attached mass. Numerical results that hitherto not reported in the literature have been presented in this article. The results presented in this investigation could be useful to acquire a better insight into the behavior of sandwich laminates carrying attached mass for engineering designers of sandwich structures. The results are presented and compared with the latest Numerical results found in literature.

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