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MATEC Web Conf.
Volume 121, 2017
8th International Conference on Manufacturing Science and Education – MSE 2017 “Trends in New Industrial Revolution”
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Article Number | 03022 | |
Number of page(s) | 6 | |
Section | Advanced Manufacturing Technologies | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/matecconf/201712103022 | |
Published online | 09 August 2017 |
Effects of Core Softness and Bimodularity of Fibreglass Layers on Flexural Stiffness of Polymer Sandwich Structures
Tomas Bata University in Zlín, Faculty of Technology, Department of Production Engineering, Vavrečkova 275, Zlín, 760 01, Czech Republic
* Corresponding author: suba@ft.utb.cz
This paper deals with the study of the flexural stiffness of the sandwich structures based on fibreglass and polymeric foams. The influence of geometrical and material parameters on the resulting effective flexural stiffness of the sandwich structure is being studied experimentally, analytically and by using FEM models. The effective modulus of elasticity of the sandwich-structured element is being studied and its theoretical and model dependencies on the flexibility of the foam core and bimodularity of the fibreglass layers are being investigated. The achieved results are compared with the experimentally observed values. This study shows that it is necessary to pay special attention to the issue of flexural stiffness of the walls when designing sandwich shell products in order to prevent possible failures in the practical applications of these types of structures.
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