November 2016
Intermediate to advanced
440 pages
105h 48m
English
The present chapter provides a comprehensive thermal buckling analysis of laminated composite and sandwich plate structures. Analytical as well as approximate solution methods are used in the investigation. In particular, the Ritz, Galerkin and Generalized Galerkin method are compared. The influence of lamination angle, length-to-thickness ratio and orthotropic ratio on the critical temperature parameter is examined. Finally, the modal characteristics of thermo-mechanically pre/post-buckled anisotropic laminated composite plates are shown.
Refined plate theories; Anisotropic composite laminates; Sandwich plates; Approximate solution methods; Thermal buckling
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