Evaluation of Thermal Stresses in Sandwich Panels with Chiral Cellular Cores

Abstract:

Sandwich panels are important components of advanced structures used in aerospace, automotive, railway, civil engineering etc. They are subjected to high and repeated variations of temperature which induce additional stresses as the core and the face sheets are from different materials having different coefficients of thermal expansion and moduli of elasticity. Therefore it is important to evaluate both mechanical and thermal stresses. In the literature one can find thermo-mechanical analyses of sandwich panels with metallic or composite face sheets and having a honeycomb or compact core made from polyurethane foam. In this paper was analysed a plane sandwich panel made from a cellular rigid polyurethane core, having a chiral configuration and auxetic properties (negative Poissons ratio) exposed to a stationary temperature field with a linear variation from +25 °C on one sheet to-50 °C on the opposite sheet. Two boundary conditions were considered in the thermo-mechanical evaluation: the free panel and the panel simply supported around the edges.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 601)
• Pages: 242-245
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.601.242
• Online since: March 2014
• Authors: Stefan Sorohan, Dan Mihai Constantinescu, Marin Sandu, Adriana Sandu
• Keywords: Auxetic Sandwich Panel, Cellular Core, Finite Element, Thermal Stress

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