Buckling of a uniformly compressed composite rectangular CCCC sandwich plate

Abstract

A solution is proposed to the buckling problem formulated for a rectangular sandwich plate having all the edges fully clamped (CCCC plate) and subjected to a uniaxial compressive loading. The analysis of the out-of-plane deformation of the buckled plate is based on the equations of the first order shear deformation theory (FSDT). Galerkin method has been employed to solve the problem. Variations of the plate deflection and angles of rotation between the unloaded edges have been approximated using the solution to the bending problem for the shear deformable beam with clamped ends. The approximation of these variables between the loaded edges has been performed using trigonometry series. The solution to the problem is reduced to the calculation of the eigenvector of corresponding homogeneous system of linear equations and determination of its least component. Verification of the solution obtained has been performed using finite-element analysis.