Vibration behaviour of a bio-composite sandwich with auxetic core

Abstract

This paper describes the flexural vibration and damping performances of an eco-composite sandwich structure with re-entrant honeycomb core. The main objective of this study is to analyse the effect of flax fibre reinforcement composite and the densities of the auxetic core on the dynamic properties of the sandwich structures. The damping properties and the sandwich stiffness are determined in bending beams for different free lengths in a clamped-free configuration. Firstly, the dynamic properties of the skins were investigated in order to develop the evolution of mechanical properties as well as damping coefficient for each material. Then, the same characterization was tested on the sandwich structures with different core densities. The results obtained showed that both core densities and flax fibre as reinforcement plays a major role on the dynamic properties of the sandwich composite structures.