A three‐phase laminated anisotropic elliptical inhomogeneity with internal uniform stress resultants

Abstract

AbstractWe use the Stroh octet formalism for the coupled stretching and bending deformations of Kirchhoff laminated anisotropic thin plates together with the complex variable formulations of the decoupled stretching and bending deformations of Kirchhoff homogeneous isotropic thin plates to study the internal stress resultants inside a laminated anisotropic elliptical inhomogeneity bonded to a surrounding infinite laminated anisotropic matrix through a confocal interphase layer composed of a homogeneous isotropic plate when the matrix is subjected to uniform remote membrane stress resultants and bending moments. We prove that for given geometric and material parameters of the composite, the internal stress resultants inside the elliptical inhomogeneity are uniform when four specific conditions on the remote loading are satisfied. Furthermore, the internal uniform elastic field is determined in real‐form in terms of the two 8 × 8 fundamental elastic plate matrices for both the inhomogeneity and the matrix and the three 4 × 4 real matrices S, H, and L for the matrix.