Abstract
Composite sandwich plates and beams are increasingly employed as an engineering material in structures such as airplanes, ships, bridges, and vehicles because of their superb strength to weight ratio. Understanding a sandwich structure’s failure mechanism is a prerequisite for a safety design. In this paper, we employ a new experimental technique called DVSP (Digital Volumetric Speckle Photography) to map the interior deformation of a short composite sandwich beam under three-point bending. 3D displacement fields and shear strain fields of 5 transverse and 4 longitudinal sections of the beam are mapped quantitatively in detail as a function of increasing load. The beam fails in delamination of the interface between the face sheet and core.
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