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Displacements and transverse normal stresses in sandwich plates and masses have been approximated by the Ambartsumyan iterative approach to constructing mathematical models of the stress-strain state of sandwich structures. A linear distribution of the displacements in the sandwich structure is set up as the first step of the iterative process, while in the subsequent steps the displacement approximations with higher-order polynomials are obtained. The approximation of the compression stresses is based on Hooke's law using the expression of the tangential displacements in the second step and the normal displacements in the third step of the iterative process. Two shear functions are introduced. The finite element is rectangular and has four nodes. The number of degrees of freedom of finite elements is independent of the quantity of the layers that may be orthotropic. The finite element allows us to simulate delamination by a thin low-modulus interlayer. In doing so, the quantity of the layers increases, while the order of the resolving set of equations does not grow. A number of numerical experiments were carried out. It has been shown that the delamination can greatly increase the level of the stresses in the structure. This effect is especially significant for thin structures. The stresses are somewhat lower when taking into account the interlaminar friction.
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Submitted to the 10th International Conference on Mechanics of Composite Materials (Riga, April 20–23, 1998).
Ukrainian Transport University, Kiev, Ukraine. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 34, No. 2, pp. 251–263, March–April, 1998.
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Marchuk, A.V. Finite element construction for simulating delamination of sandwich composite plates and masses. Mech Compos Mater 34, 184–193 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02256037
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