Effect of thickness on buckling of perfect cross-ply rings under external pressure

Composite Structures

Volumn 81, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 525-532

  Kim, Deokjoo ^a   Chaudhuri, Reaz A ^b  

^a University of Utah   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Buckling pressure; Cross ply ring; Interlaminar shear normal deformation; Nonlinear finite element; Thickness effect

Indexed keywords

BUCKLING; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SHEAR DEFORMATION;

BUCKLING PRESSURE; CLASSICAL LAMINATION THEORY; CROSS-PLY RING; LAYER-WISE LINEAR DISPLACEMENTS DISTRIBUTION THROUGH THICKNESS;

COMPOSITE STRUCTURES;

BUCKLING; DEFORMATION; FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; INTERLAMINAR PROPERTY; RING; SHEAR PROPERTY;

EID: 34250769553     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2006.09.015     Document Type: Article

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