ABSTRACT
This chapter presents a variety of increasingly complex problems which on one hand provide the techniques of solutions available for rectangular sandwich plates, and on the other hand provide useful information for the design and analysis of rectangular sandwich plates. The Navier approach is excellent for sandwich plates with all four edges simply supported, and the Levy approach is fine for sandwich plates with two opposite edges simply supported, regardless of the boundary conditions on the other two edges. For instance, energy methods are definitely suggested for problems with discontinuous boundary conditions; numerous discontinuous or concentrated loads; general anisotropy with ( )16 and ( )26 terms; or thermoelastic problems wherein the thermoelastic considerations require nonhomogeneous boundary conditions.
