Determination of Centroid and Shear Center （确定质心和剪切中心）.pdfVIP

Determination of Centroid and Shear Center Locations of Composite Box Beams W. S. Chan and K.A. Syed The University of Texas at Arlington Arlington, Texas, USA Email:chan@uta.edu SUMMARY This paper presents a simple method based on classical lamination theory to determine the locations of the centroid and the shear center for composite beams with box cross- section. The present method includes the effect of coupling due to unsymmetrical cross- section and its laminate layup while the conventional method using the smear properties of laminate ignores this effect. Keywords: Composite structures; Hat section beam; sectional stiffness; shear center; centroid INTRODUCTION There has been a growing interest in the analysis of thin-walled composite beams because of increasing use of composite structures in aerospace and civil engineering applications. In structural applications, structural member with thin-walled cross-section is one of the most efficient structural members that can achieve the required stiffness with minimum weight. In analyzing these structures, most structures are analyzed as beams as one- dimensional structural members if one dimension (the length) is much larger than the other two dimensions (width and thickness). The foundation of the beam analysis is based upon the moment-curvature relationship along the longitudinal axis of the beam. This approach used for laminated composite beam is not different from the isotropic beam. However, in evaluation of the relationship between the bending/twisting moment and the curvatures, so-called the bending and tor