Bending of sandwich plates with anti-symmetric angle-ply face sheets - Analytical evaluation of higher order refined computational models

Composite Structures

Volumn 75, Issue 1-4, 2006, Pages 114-120

  Swaminathan, K ^a   Patil, S S ^a   Nataraja, M S ^a   Mahabaleswara, K S ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KARNATAKA   (India)

Author keywords

Analytical solutions; Flexural; Higher order theory; Sandwich plates; Shear deformation

Indexed keywords

BENDING (DEFORMATION); BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; POTENTIAL ENERGY; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

ANTI-SYMMETRIC ANGLE-PLY FACE; PRINCIPLE OF MINIMUM POTENTIAL ENERGY; SANDWICH PLATES;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

BENCHMARKING; BENDING; FOURIER TRANSFORM ANALYSIS; LOADING (TESTING); MATHEMATICAL MODEL; SHEAR PROPERTY;

EID: 33745739291     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.04.007     Document Type: Article

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