Two-scale micropolar plate model for web-core sandwich panels Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • 2019 A 2-D micropolar equivalent single-layer (ESL), first-order shear deformation (FSDT)plate model for 3-D web-core sandwich panels is developed. First, a 3-D web-core unit cell is modeled by classical shell finite elements. A discrete-to-continuum transformation is applied to the microscale unit cell and its strain and kinetic energy densities are expressed in terms of the macroscale 2-D plate kinematics. The hyperelastic constitutive relations and the equations of motion (via Hamilton's principle)for the plate are derived by assuming energy equivalence between the 3-D unit cell and the 2-D plate. The Navier solution is developed for the 2-D micropolar ESL-FSDT plate model to study the bending, buckling, and free vibration of simply-supported web-core sandwich panels. In a line load bending problem, a 2-D classical ESL-FSDT plate model yields displacement errors of 34175% for face sheet thicknesses of 210 mm compared to a 3-D FE solution, whereas the 2-D micropolar model gives only small errors of 2.73.4% as it can emulate the 3-D deformations better through non-classical antisymmetric shear behavior and local bending and twisting.

published proceedings

  • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

altmetric score

  • 0.25

author list (cited authors)

  • Karttunen, A. T., Reddy, J. N., & Romanoff, J.

citation count

  • 24

complete list of authors

  • Karttunen, Anssi T||Reddy, JN||Romanoff, Jani

publication date

  • October 2019