STABILITY ANALYSIS OF VARIABLE STIFFNESS COMPOSITE LAMINATED PLATES WITH DELAMINATION USING SPLINE-FSM

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STABILITY, VARIABLE STIFFNESS, CURVILINEAR FIBER COMPOSITE, FINITE STRIP METHOD, DELAMINATION

Abstract

THE DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF VARIABLE STIFFNESS COMPOSITE LAMI-NATED (VSCL) PLATE WITH CURVILINEAR FIBER ORIENTATION SUB-JECTED TO IN-PLANE END-LOADS IS INVESTIGATED. A VARIABLE STIFF-NESS DESIGN CAN INCREASE THE LAMINATED COMPOSITE STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE AND ALSO PROVIDES FLEXIBILITY FOR TRADING-OFFS BETWEEN VARIOUS STRUCTURAL PROPERTIES. IN EACH PLY OF THE VSCL PLATE, THE FIBER-ORIENTATION ANGLE ASSUMED TO BE CHANGED LINEARLY WITH RESPECT TO HORIZONTAL GEOMETRY COORDI-NATE. THE SPLINE FINITE STRIP METHOD BASED ON BOTH CLASSICAL AS WELL AS HIGHER ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION PLATE THEORIES IS FORMULATED TO EXPLAIN THE STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOR. THE PANEL IS ASSUMED CONTAINING INTERNAL SQUARE DELAMINATION REGIONS WITH FRICTION AND CONTACT CONDITIONS AT DELAMINATED INTERFAC-ES ARE NOT CONSIDERED. IN ORDER TO DEMONSTRATE THE CAPABILI-TIES OF THE DEVELOPED METHOD IN PREDICTING THE STRUCTURAL DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR, SOME REPRESENTING RESULTS ARE OBTAINED AND COMPARED WITH THOSE AVAILABLE IN THE LITERATURE. THE EFFECTS OF CHANGE IN CURVILINEAR FIBER ORIENTATION ANGLES ON THE STRUCTURAL STABILITY IS STUDIED. THE OBTAINED RESULTS SHOW VERY GOOD CONFORMITY IN COMPARISON WITH THOSE EXISTS IN THE AVAILABLE LITERATURE.

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2017-01-26

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Vol. 14 No. 03 (2017)

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