Vibration Analysis of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Laminated Composite Skin with Glass Honeycomb Sandwich Beam Using HSDT

Authors

  • Mageshwaran Subramani
    Affiliation

    VIT UniversityVellore, Tamilnadu, India

  • Ananda Babu Arumugam
    Affiliation

    VIT UniversityVellore, Tamilnadu, India

  • Manoharan Ramamoorthy
    Affiliation

    VIT UniversityVellore, Tamilnadu, India

https://doi.org/10.3311/PPme.9747

Abstract

In this paper, the vibration analysis of uniform laminated composite sandwich beam with a viscoelastic core was studied. The governing equation of motion of the laminated composite sandwich beam has been derived based on higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT) in finite element model (FEM). The developed finite element model has been validated in terms of natural frequencies with the experimental values and the available literature. Various parametric studies have been performed to examine the impact of the core thickness, ply orientation and aspect ratio of the uniform laminated composite sandwich beam in response to free vibration for various boundary conditions. From the results it was concluded that that natural frequencies could be increased with increasing the core thickness and decreased with increasing the aspect ratio.

Keywords:

carbon fiber laminate, glass fiber honeycomb core, HSDT& sandwich beam

Published Online

2017-06-29

How to Cite

Subramani, M., Arumugam, A. B., Ramamoorthy, M. “Vibration Analysis of Carbon Fiber Reinforced Laminated Composite Skin with Glass Honeycomb Sandwich Beam Using HSDT”, Periodica Polytechnica Mechanical Engineering, 61(3), pp. 213–224, 2017. https://doi.org/10.3311/PPme.9747

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