Abstract:

This article presents the bending analysis of an inhomogeneous composite sandwich rectangular plate with viscoelastic core. The sinusoidal plate theory as well as other familiar shear deformation plate theories is used. Different types of intermediate plates are considered according to the thickness of all layers and the symmetry of the plate. Illyushin's approximation and the effective moduli methods are used to treat the governing equations of sandwich plates that reinforced with inhomogeneous fibers. Various results for deflections of and some stresses in such plates are presented. A comparison study is made to investigate the effect of time, inhomogeneity, and constitutive parameters as well as the effect of span-to-thickness and aspect ratios on the bending response of the sandwich plates.

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