Abstract
AbstractFor inplane loaded plates the use of two laminate patches which are attached symmetrically to a base laminate with respect to the out‐of‐plane direction is a possibility to reinforce a highly stressed region. But corners at the patches' boundaries constitute a source for stress localizations. The expedient knowledge of the local mechanical inplane fields at such corners can be obtained with the boundary finite element method (BFEM). In order to investigate the intrinsically three‐dimensional nature of the laminate corner setup the gradients of the inplane fields are readily evaluated since they are provided by the BFEM in a semi‐analytical way. The interlaminar stresses inside the plate are retrieved by equilibrium considerations on a ply‐by‐ply basis. (© 2005 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)
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