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The Plastic Behavior in the Large Deflection Response of Fiber Metal Laminate Sandwich Beams under Transverse Loading
Mingshi Wang1, Jianxun Zhang1,2, Hui Yuan1
1State Key Laboratory for Strength and Vibration of Mechanical Structures, School of Aerospace Engineering, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an 710049, China.
Abstract:
The plastic behavior in the large deflection response of slender sandwich beams with fiber metal laminate (FML) face sheets and a metal foam core under transverse loading is studied. According to a modified rigid-perfectly plastic material approximation, an analytical model is developed, and simple formulae are obtained for the large deflection response of fully clamped FML sandwich beams, considering the interaction of bending and stretching. Finite element (FE) calculations are conducted, and analytical predictions capture numerical results reasonably in the plastic stage of large deflection. The influences of metal volume fraction, strength ratio of metal to composite layer, core strength, and punch size on the plastic behavior in the large deflection response of FML sandwich beams are discussed. It is suggested that, if the structural behavior of fiber-metal laminate sandwich beams is plasticity dominated, it is similar to that of metal sandwich beams. Moreover, both metal volume fraction and the strength ratio of metal to composite layer are found to be important for the plastic behavior in the large deflection response of fiber metal laminate sandwich beams, while core strength and punch size might have little influence on it.
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