Stitched sandwich becomes popular in structural application owing to its better performance in the transverse direction with respect to classical sandwich structure and relatively low-cost additional stitching process. The identification of its elastic properties is essential for offering a tailored structure for specific applications. A non-destructive identification method based on vibration test is proposed to obtain these parameters. The number of parameters is firstly reduced by a sensibility analysis. The retained parameters are identified by minimizing the cost function which indicates the gap between measured frequencies from vibration test and calculated frequencies from a finite element model. This method is applied to a stitched sandwich panel and its elastic properties are successfully identified.
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