Investigation of bending behavior of foam core sandwich plates with different face and core materials at different layer thicknesses

Abstract

Sandwich plates consist of a total of three layers with a thick core layer between two thin face layers. While the face layers provide resistance against bending, the core layer provides resistance against shear. General purpose finite element software programs are one of the most convenient and widely used analysis procedures for investigating the behavior of structures. Many design parameters can be easily examined by these analysis programs. In this study, the bending behavior of simply supported sandwich square plates on four sides with a ratio of core layer thickness to face layer thickness between 7 and 9 was investigated by using the general purpose finite element software program. The effect of the thickness change was investigated by changing the face and core layer thicknesses of the sandwich plates with a fixed total thickness. At the same time, the face and core materials were changed and the most suitable design in bending behavior was revealed. For this purpose, 110 analyzes were performed with 2 different face materials, 5 different core materials, 11 different thickness ratios, and the results were presented with graphics.