Postcritical imperfection sensitivity of sandwich or homogenized orthotropic columns soft in shear and in transverse deformation

International Journal of Solids and Structures

Volumn 43, Issue 18-19, 2006, Pages 5501-5524

  Beghini, Alessandro ^a   Bažant, Zdeněk P ^b   Waas, Anthony M ^c   Basu, Shiladitya ^c  

^a Skidmore Owings and Merrill LLP   (United States)

^b Northwestern University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Composites; Critical loads; Finite element analysis; Finite strain; Homogenization; Imperfection sensitivity; Postcritical behavior; Sandwich structures; Stability

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STABILITY; STIFFNESS; STRAIN RATE;

CRITICAL LOADS; FINITE STRAIN; HOMOGENIZATION; IMPERFECTION SENSITIVITY; POSTCRITICAL BEHAVIOR;

SANDWICH STRUCTURES;

EID: 33746190876     PISSN: 00207683     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2005.07.040     Document Type: Article

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