Abstract
All steel laser welded sandwich plates have found their position in the marine and land vehicles. To implement such design accurately, knowledge about its strength properties and the influence of laser weld dimensions on strength is necessary. In this paper, the over-hanging three point bending tests were conducted on the laser welded web-core steel sandwich plate with various weld dimensions by self-designed device, together with the finite element simulations. The results show that the joint is formed on the first plastic hinge when the load is no longer a linear relationship with the deflection, and the joint cracking when the load reaches the maximum bearing capacity of sandwich plate. The joint yield load and the maximum bearing capacity of the sandwich plates increased with the increasing of weld width. Meanwhile, the mode of failure of sandwich plates also changed: When the weld width is smaller, the mode of failure is joint yield, When the weld width is greater than 3mm, the mode of failure is the combination of partial joint yield, face plate and core plate local yield, while the face plate and core plate yield exists in the whole weld joint. It is necessary to consider the weld width in the design and evaluation of the strength of the laser welded web-core sandwich plate.
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