Thermo-elastic buckling of honeycomb micro plates integrated with FG-GNPs reinforced Epoxy skins with stretching effect

Abstract

Halpin-Tsai and extended rule of mixture (ERM) schemes are used to evaluate the effective material properties of composite face sheets of a micro-scaled sandwich rectangular plate, to assess its thermo-elastic buckling behavior, in the current paper. For more details, it should be added that under evaluation model, which is resting on a Pasternak elastic foundation, is a honeycomb micro structure which is made of Nomex or Glass Phenolic and, to integrity, is patched with two same composite layers including graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) dispersed through Epoxy resin. Great novelty of quasi-3D hyperbolic shear deformation theory (QHSDT) which accounts for stretching effect, virtual displacement principle, and modified couple stress theory (MCST) produced a good motivation to hire it to extract equations related to the current sandwich micro plate. Finally, variations of critical loads of thermal and mechanical buckling considered in figures and tables to examine the effect of different parameters’ changes on them. As an example, based on acquired results, the sensitivity of thermo-mechanical critical buckling loads to the internal aspect ratio of honeycomb core ϕ0 and force intensity distributions is proved where force intensity enhancement is caused critical buckling load reduction.