Nonlinear Thermo-mechanical Finite Element Analysis of Polymer Foam Cored Sandwich Structures including Geometrical and Material Nonlinearity

Hara Naga Krishna Teja Palleti, Ole Thybo Thomsen, Siavash Talebi Taher, Janice Barton

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Abstract

In this paper, polymer foam cored sandwich structures with fibre reinforced composite face sheets subjected to combined mechanical and thermal loads will be analysed using the commercial FE code ABAQUS® incorporating both material and geometrical nonlinearity. Large displacements and rotations are included in the analysis. The full nonlinear stress-strain curves up to failure will be considered for the polymer foams at different temperatures to study the effect of material nonlinearity in detail.
Original languageEnglish
Publication dateJun 2011
Number of pages2
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2011
Event16th International conference on Composite Structures, Porto, 2011 - Porto, Portugal
Duration: 28 Jun 201130 Jun 2011
Conference number: 16

Conference

Conference16th International conference on Composite Structures, Porto, 2011
Number16
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityPorto
Period28/06/201130/06/2011

Bibliographical note

16th International conference on Composite Structures, Porto, 2011

Keywords

  • Finite element analysis (FEA)
  • Thermal degradation
  • Foam cored sandwich structures

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