Buckling behaviour of laminated composite structures using a discrete higher-order displacement model

Composite Structures

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 75-92

  Moita, José Simões ^a   Mota Soares, Cristóvão M ^b   Mota Soares, Carlos A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALGARVE   (Portugal)

^b Instituto Superior Tecnico Institute for Mechanical Engineering   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHEAR STRESS; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); STIFFNESS MATRIX; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS;

DISCRETE HIGHER ORDER DISPLACEMENT; GEOMETRIC STIFFNESS MATRIX; LAMINATION ANGLES; LINEAR BUCKLING ANALYSIS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

EID: 0030142401     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0263-8223(96)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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