Experimental investigation of local bending effects in the vicinity of a junction between a straight sandwich beam and a curved sandwich beam

✍ Scribed by Anders Lyckegaard; Elena Bozhevolnaya; Ole Thybo Thomsen

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2004
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 385 KB
• Volume: 35
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1359-8368
• DOI: 10.1016/j.compositesb.2004.04.009

✦ Synopsis

The junction between a curved and a straight sandwich beam is investigated experimentally using electronic speckle pattern interferometry. This technique facilitates a whole field measurement of the displacements through the thickness of the sandwich beam. The experimental results are compared with results obtained using a high order sandwich theory model. The results generally show good agreement within the accuracy of the measurements, thus indicating that the gross response of the model is predicted accurately by the high order sandwich theory, while the localised bending effects in the vicinity of curvature change in sandwich panels have not been verified experimentally.