A. H. Muhr1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.5, No.1, pp. 11-30, 2007, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2007.005.011
Abstract The mechanics of laminates of elastomer and shims of high modulus material are reviewed. Such structures are often built to provide engineering components with specified, and quite different, stiffnesses in different modes of deformation. The shims may either be rigid or flexible, flat or curved, but are usually close to inextensible, being made of a high modulus material such as steel. On the other hand, rubber has an exceptionally low shear modulus, about one thousandth of its bulk modulus, so that shear of the rubber layers and flexure of the high modulus layers (if thin) are the dominant mechanisms of… More >
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