Chapter 8

Through-the-thickness thermal fields in one-layer and multilayered structures

Abstract

This chapter proposes a thorough thermal stress investigation of layered structures. The temperature profiles and their influence on the static response are evaluated. Stress and displacement fields are computed by accounting for several temperature fields as well as various laminate stacking sequences and geometry. In particular, four sample problems are proposed and the results, obtained by using advanced plate theories, are compared with those available in literature.

Keywords

Refined hierarchical theories; Temperature profile; Transverse normal strain effect; Laminated composite plates; Stress and displacement fields

8.1 Introduction ...

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