Shear deformation laminate theory used for sandwiches

Abstract

The shear deformation laminate theory is very useful for the calculation of the sandwich composites. Sandwich can be defined as a special laminate with three layers and therefore can be modeled using shear deformation laminate theory by neglecting of membrane and bending deformations in the core and the shear deformation in the facings.

Keywords

• sandwich plate
• shear deformation theory
• stress resultant analysis
• symmetric and asymmetric laminate