RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
A1 Lairedj, Abdelaziz
A1 Bouazza, Mokhtar
A1 Amara, Khaled
A1 Chabani, Abdelmadjid
T1 Behaviors of Simply Supported Cross-Ply Rectangular Symmetric Laminates Plates with Consideration of Prebuckling In-Plane Deformation
JF Acta Mechanica Slovaca
YR 2015
VO 19
IS 1
SP 18
OP 27
DO 10.21496/ams.2015.002
UL https://www.actamechanica.sk/artkey/ams-201501-0002.php
AB This paper addresses the elastic buckling of simply supported cross-ply rectangular symmetric laminates with allowance for the effects of prebuckling in-plane deformation and higher-order strain terms (curvature terms), using the first order shear deformation theory. The governing plate equations are derived by considering the stationary condition for the derived energy functional by applying the calculus of variations. The buckling load of symmetric cross-ply laminated rectangular plates, which are subjected to uniaxial compression, biaxial compression, and biaxial compression and tension, are determined whilst the effects of different parameters, the plate aspect ratio, the relative thickness degrees of material orthotropy and numbers of layers are investigated.