Chapter 10

Free vibration response of uncoupled thermoelastic problems

Abstract

This chapter deals with the study of free vibration of uncoupled thermoelastic problems. The effect of the thermal environment on the modal characteristics of sandwich plate structures is thoroughly investigated. Two different sandwich structure configurations, accounting for cross-ply and angle-ply face sheets, respectively, are analyzed. Results obtained by using the proposed advanced and refined plate models are assessed against those present in literature and/or obtained by using commercial FE software.

Keywords

Sandwich plates; Closed form solution; Equivalent single layer models; Zig zag models; Layer wise models; Thermal environment

10.1 Introduction ...

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