The paper deals with the effect of moisture and temperature on the buckling response of a laminated composite plate subjected to hygrothermomechanical loadings. Mechanical loading consists of uniaxial, biaxial, and shear. The distribution of temperature and moisture on the surface is considered to be uniform. The degradation in material properties due to moisture and temperature is taken into account using a micromechanical model. The mathematical formulation is based on higher order shear deformation theory and von Karman’s nonlinear kinematics. A C 0 finite-element method based on higher-order shear deformation plate theory is used for deriving the standard Eigenvalue problem. A Taylor series based mean-centered first-order perturbation technique is used to find out the second-order statistics of the hygrothermal buckling loads. The effects of temperature rise, moisture concentration, fiber-volume fraction, and plate parameters on buckling response of the plate are presented.


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    Title :

    Hygrothermoelastic Buckling Response of Laminated Composite Plates with Random System Properties: Macromechanical and Micromechanical Model


    Contributors:
    Kumar, Rajesh (author) / Patil, H. S. (author) / Lal, A. (author)

    Published in:

    Publication date :

    2012-04-28




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    Unknown