Review and assessment of various theories for modeling sandwich composites

Large displacement analysis of sandwich plates and shells with symmetric/asymmetric lamination

“…This problem has been analysed by Hu et al [34] in the evaluation of various lamination theories. Accordingly, the closed form solutions of other models are also provided in Nevertheless, as is stated in the previous section, for sandwich structures that consist of a soft core, the core offers the dominant contribution to the transverse shear strain energy whereas the contribution from the face sheets is not of significance.…”

Experimental Investigations of Compressed Sandwich Composite/Honeycomb Cylindrical Shells

“…The broader discussion of the individual failure criteria of sandwich structures and the limitations of them can be found e.g. in Refs [8][9][10][11].…”

Damping analysis of beams submitted to passive and active control

“…Since the 1950 s, there have been a lot of papers published on sandwich structures using passive damping. Excellent reviews on the evolution of modeling passive damping were given by Nakra [13][14][15], Torvik [16], Mead [17], and Hu [5]. More recently, many researchers, as Lee [18], Crawley [19], and Preumont [20], have provided governing equations, reciprocal relationships and experimental verification of the induced-strain actuation, for smart structures dealing with piezoelectric laminates and active control.…”

“…More than 40 years ago, it was well established that an efficient way to increase passive damping is the use of a sandwich construction with alternating elastic and viscoelastic layers [1,2]. Therefore, many analytical and numerical methods have been proposed to determine the damping parameters (loss factor and frequency) [3][4][5]. So, these modal parameters can be obtained in different ways, i.e., by the direct frequency response method [6], the complex eigenvalue method [7], the modal strain energy method [6,8], and the nonlinear complex eigenvalue techniques [9][10][11].…”