Static analysis of laminated beams via a unified formulation

Composite Structures

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 75-83

  Catapano, A ^a,b   Giunta, G ^b   Belouettar, S ^b   Carrera, E ^c  

^a INSTITUT JEAN LE ROND D ALEMBERT   (France)

^b LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Luxembourg)

^c POLITECNICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Laminated beams; Navier type solution; Unified formulation

Indexed keywords

BEAM MODEL; BENDING LOADING; CARRERA'S UNIFIED FORMULATION; CLOSED FORM; COMMERCIAL CODES; COMPOSITE BEAM; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; CROSS-PLY; EULER-BERNOULLI; FE MODEL; GOVERNING EQUATIONS; LAMINATED BEAMS; LENGTH-TO-THICKNESS RATIO; LINEAR STATIC ANALYSIS; NAVIER-TYPE SOLUTION; NAVIER-TYPE SOLUTIONS; NUMERICAL INVESTIGATIONS; PRINCIPLE OF VIRTUAL DISPLACEMENTS; SIMPLY SUPPORTED; STRESS FIELD; UNIFIED FORMULATION;

LAMINATED COMPOSITES; LAMINATING; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

EID: 80053051203     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2011.07.015     Document Type: Article

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