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In this study, a novel method for determining stresses in the torsion problems of laminated composite trimetallic and bimetallic bars was developed and evaluated via experimental and numerical analyses. The objective of this method is to transform a real transversal section of a model for a laminated composite bar into a hypothetical virtual section that is homogenous and isotropic. An analogy with the transformed-section method for solving composite beams under flexion was conducted. The shear stresses (maximum on external surfaces and interfaces) in laminated composite bars were undergoing torsion. Isotropic symmetric and asymmetric laminated composite bars were examined analytically, and the results of their respective experimental and numerical tests were analyzed. The proposed method exhibits differences between 2 % and 12 % compared with the experimental results and between 2 % and 10 % compared with the results obtained using the finite element method.

This paper presents Acosta’s (Acosta et al., 2016) constitutive analytical model, which is used for the mechanical analysis of intralaminar and global stresses in symmetrical laminated composite materials subject to axial load. The model is composed of both a laminated constitutive model and a constitutive model for each layer. The model and its method of analysis were used to obtain the elastic properties of the core of a symmetric metal sandwich plate and the properties of a non-symmetric bimetallic material. The model is fed with information from strain gages, which register deformations at the boundary of the compounds analyzed under axial load. The results obtained showed that the proposed method is simple and reliable. Keywords: Elastic properties, Laminated compounds, Sandwich material, Intralaminar stress