Design concept of sandwich beams deflection

摘要

The aim of this paper is to introduce a framework for designing simple sandwich beams. Such sandwiches are assumed to be composed of multiple interconnected individual sub-beams made of various materials, having different cross-sectional profiles and different lengths. The work presented in this paper offers a simple framework for evaluation of the deflection of sandwich beams, with application to solution of cantilever sandwich beam composed of arbitrary number of sub-beams of unequal length.