Abstract
In this study, nonlinear post-buckling and free vibration analysis of shape memory polymer sandwich composite (SMPSC) under dynamic temperature variation is performed. For the analysis, simplified Co continuity based on higher-order shear deformation theory (HSDT) has been adopted to perform finite element analysis (FEA). Numerical solutions are obtained by iterative Newton–Raphson method considering Von-Karman nonlinear kinematics. Material properties of SMPSC, with Shape Memory Polymer (SMP) as matrix and carbon fiber as reinforcements, have been calculated by theory of volume averaging. The effect of dynamic temperature variation and axial variable inplane loadings (AVIL) on SMPC and SMPSC has been evaluated for various parameters such as beam thickness ratio, layer variation, boundary conditions (BCs), position of core, thickness of core in sandwich structures for the first time. Apart from these, this study also clearly reveals the difference in magnitude of buckling and free vibration parameters between the shape memory polymer composites (SMPC) and SMPSC, before and after glass transition region of material.
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