Free vibration of a three-layered sandwich beam using the dynamic stiffness method and experiment

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 44, Issue 22-23, 2007, Pages 7543-7563

  Banerjee, J R ^a   Cheung, C W ^a   Morishima, R ^a   Perera, M ^a   Njuguna, J ^b  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CRANFIELD UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dynamic stiffness method; Free vibration; Sandwich beam; Symbolic computation; Timoshenko theory; Wittrick Williams algorithm

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATION THEORY; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; VIBRATION ANALYSIS;

DYNAMIC STIFFNESS METHOD; FREE VIBRATION; SANDWICH BEAM; SYMBOLIC COMPUTATION; TIMOSHENKO THEORY; WITTRICK-WILLIAMS ALGORITHM;

BEAMS AND GIRDERS;

EID: 34548850311     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2007.04.024     Document Type: Article

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