Linking Mesoscopic and Macroscopic Aspects of Inclined Self-Weight Sandwich Beams with Functionally Graded Porous Cores Under Moving Loads

Abstract

The surging interest in porous lightweight structures has been witnessed in recent years to pursue material innovations in broad engineering disciplines for sustainable developments and multifunctional proposes. Functionally graded (FG) porous composites represent a novel way to adjust mechanical characteristics by controlling the porosity distributions. However, the further advance in this field is challenged by the scale gap between mesoscopic and macroscopic aspects of porous structural analysis, i.e. how the local cellular morphologies impact the overall behaviors. The purpose of this paper is to bridge this gap by conducting a theoretical investigation on the performance of inclined sel..