Large deformation analysis of sandwich beams using compound \(C^1\) continuous finite element approximation
摘要
A novel computational framework for the geometrically nonlinear elastic response of sandwich rods, plates and shells is proposed and investigated in the context of statics of a straight sandwich beam. Particular attention is paid to the local effects associated with thickness deformation. Modeling the face sheets as geometrically exact 1D rods with bending and tension/compression, and the soft core as a 2D continuum at plane stress, is efficient with the