Abstract

A total potential energy approach has been employed in conjuction with the Rayleigh-Ritz method to study the stability behaviour of generally laminated composite plates with all edges simply supported and subjected to in-plane loading conditions. Thorough comparison with exact solutions for some classes of laminated composite plates subjected to uniaxial compression and biaxial compression are presented to verify the theoretical prediction of the present analysis. Lastly parametric studies on the combination of the various in-plane loads, i.e. biaxial compression and uniaxial compression with shear, on practical laminated composite plates are presented. The buckling results for a symmetric angle-ply laminated composite plate are also discussed.

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