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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF STRUCTURAL STABILITY AND DYNAMICS
Volume 10, Issue 4, Pages 761-778Publisher
WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBL CO PTE LTD
DOI: 10.1142/S0219455410003725
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Composites; laminates; postbuckling; stability
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In this paper, closed-form approximate solutions for the geometrically nonlinear behaviour of rectangular laminated plates with flexural orthotropy under longitudinal compression are presented. Based on the governing Marguerre-type differential equations postulated for imperfect plates, two plate configurations are discussed in detail, representing important application cases in practical engineering work. The first configuration is a laminated plate that is simply supported at all four edges (the so-called SSSS plate), while for the second configuration clamped unloaded longitudinal edges are considered (denoted as the SSCC plate). For both plate configurations, rather simple closed-form approximations in the form of trigonometric shape functions are employed for the description of the out-of-plane postbuckling plate deflections. Based on the chosen shape functions, the compatibility condition with respect to the in-plane strains is fulfilled exactly, while the out-of-plane equilibrium condition for a defected plate element is not, but is solved using a Galerkin-type formulation instead. Eventually, very simple closed-form solutions for all postbuckling state variables (deflections, in-plane edge displacements, and effective widths) are derived that can be used very conveniently in engineering practice. The high accuracy of the presented analysis methods is established by comparison with the results of other authors.
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