Influence of skin/core debonding on free vibration behavior of foam and honeycomb cored sandwich plates

Abstract

The dynamic behavior of partially debonded at the skin/core interface sandwich plates with flexible cores is studied. The commercial finite element code ABAQUS is used to calculate natural frequencies and mode shapes of the debonded sandwich plates. The effects of debonding size, debonding location and number of debonding on the modal parameters of damaged sandwich plates with various boundary conditions are investigated. The results of dynamic analysis illustrated that can be useful for analyzing practical problems related to the non-destructive damage detection of debonded sandwich plates.