Experimental identification of flexural and shear complex moduli by inverting the Timoshenko beam problem

When compared to other usual approaches, the method developed in this paper shows a very good agreement between the experimental sandwich beam and the homogeneous model, which highlights interesting insights for applying it to industrial structures. The local aspect, the robustness and the self-regularization properties are verified on a wide frequency range, making the procedure possibly efficient for characterization of structures on a production line, flaw detection and Structural Health Monitoring.