Buckling and post-buckling analysis of moderately thick laminated rectangular plates

Computers and Structures

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-86

  Sundaresan, P ^a   Singh, G ^a   Venkateswara Rao, G ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASPECT RATIO; BEARING CAPACITY; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; BUCKLING; COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; LAMINATED COMPOSITES; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; STRUCTURAL LOADS;

CONSTRAIN EQUATIONS; EIGHT NODE ISOPARAMETRIC PLATE FINITE ELEMENT; FIRST ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION THEORY; LOAD CARRYING CAPACITY; POST BUCKLING ANALYSIS; THICK LAMINATED RECTANGULAR PLATES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

EID: 0030216983     PISSN: 00457949     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7949(96)00010-7     Document Type: Article

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