Static stability of a viscoelastically supported asymmetric sandwich beam with thermal gradient

Abstract

The static stability of an asymmetric sandwich beam with viscoelastic core on viscoelastic supports at the ends and subjected to an axial pulsating load and a steady, one-dimensional temperature gradient is investigated by computational method. The equations of motion and associated boundary conditions are obtained using the Hamilton’s energy principle. Then, these equations of motion and the associated boundary conditions are non-dimensionalised. A set of Hill’s equations is obtained from the non-dimensional equations of motion by the application of the general Galerkin method. The static buckling loads are obtained from the Hill’s equations. The effects of shear parameter, geometric parameters, core loss factors, and thermal gradient on the non-dimensional static buckling loads zones have been investigated.