Thermal buckling analysis of truss-core sandwich plates.pdfVIP

Appl. Math. Mech. -Engl. Ed., 34(10), 1177–1186 (2013) Applied Mathematics DOI 10.1007/s10483-013-1737-7 and Mechanics c Shanghai University and Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2013 (English Edition) Thermal buckling analysis of truss-core sandwich plates∗ 1,2 1 Ji-wei CHEN () , Yong-quan LIU () , 1 1 Wei LIU ( ) , Xian-yue SU () (1. The State Key Laboratory for Turbulence and Complex Systems (LTCS) and Department of Mechanics and Aerospace Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing 100871, P. R. China; 2. Shanghai Aircraft Design and Research Institute, Shanghai 201210, P. R. China) Abstract Truss-core sandwich plates have received much attention in virtue of the high values of strength-to-weight and stiffness-to-weight as well as the great ability of impulse- resistance recently. It is necessary to study the stability of sandwich panels under the influence of the thermal load. However, the sandwich plates are such complex three- dimensional (3D) systems that direct analytical solutions do not exist, and the finite element method (FEM) cannot represent the relationship between structural parameters and mechanical properties well. In this paper, an equivalent homogeneous continuous plate is idealized by obtaining the effective bending and transverse shear stiffness based on the characteristics of periodicall