Abstract

Abstract Nonlinear dynamic thermo-mechanical buckling and postbuckling analyses of imperfect viscoelastic composite laminated/sandwich plates are performed by a proposed theory that takes into account all the interlaminar kinematic and transverse stress continuity conditions, for the first time. Even the dynamic buckling analysis of the multi-layered/sandwich plates employing the hierarchical constitutive model has not been performed before. The proposed theory is a double-superposition high-order global–local theory that is calibrated based on the nonlinear strain–displacement expressions for the thermoelastic loadings taking into account the structural damping. The buckling loads are determined based on a criterion previously published by the author. Various complex sensitivity analyses evaluating effects of the relaxation parameters, rate of the loading, sudden heating, and pre-stress on thermo-mechanical buckling of the viscoelatic multi-layered/sandwich plates are performed. Results show that the viscoelastic behavior may decrease the buckling load. Sudden dynamic buckling loads are higher due to the reflected stress waves.

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