..., 2014. Assoc. Editor: Liang-Wu Cai. 15 07 2013 20 03 2014 This study examines wave attenuation and power flow characteristics of sandwich beams with internal absorbers. Two types of absorbing systems embedded in the core are considered, namely, a conventional spring-mass-dashpot...

... for the viscoelastic core and Euler–Bernoulli hypotheses for the elastic faces, but the latter is modified to account for the rotational influence of the transversal shearing in the core. The validity and accuracy of the presented element are assessed through comparisons with numerical results of sandwich beams...