An accurate de-lamination model for weakly bonded laminates subjected to different sets of edge boundary conditions

✍ Scribed by Xiaoping Shu; Kostas P. Soldatos

• Book ID: 104140081
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 43
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7403
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7403(00)00053-9

✦ Synopsis

37:4289}307) towards the accurate stress analysis of weakly bonded laminates. The main advantage of the method stems from the fact that it is based on a suitable version of a generalised two-dimensional plate theory that makes use of a small number of degrees of freedom, which is not dependent on the number of the layers involved. Hence, although the method can accommodate with relative ease any set of boundary conditions imposed at the plate edges, it avoids the computationally expensive consequences of corresponding two-dimensional layer-wise plate models or relevant three-dimensional "nite element considerations.