Thermo-mechanics of undamaged and damaged multilayered composite plates: assessment of the FEM sub-laminates approach

Composite Structures

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 137-155

  Gherlone, Marco ^a   Di Sciuva, Marco ^a  

^a POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Damaged plates; Multilayered plates; Plate mixed finite element; Sub laminates; Tangential loads; Thermal loads

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES; DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; STRUCTURAL LOADS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION;

MULTILAYERED PLATES; SUB-LAMINATES CONCEPT; TANGENTIAL LOADS; THERMO-MECHANICS;

PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS);

COMPOSITE; DELAMINATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; LAMINATE; MECHANICS; STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 34250647000     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.08.005     Document Type: Article

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