Abstract
A linear buckling analysis is carried out for orthotropic inhomogeneous rectangular plates under uniform in-plane compression. It is assumed that material inhomogeneities of Young's modulus and shear modulus of elasticity are continuously changed in the thickness direction with the power law of the coordinate variable, while Poisson's ratio is assumed to be constant. The buckling equation can be successfully constructed as the linearized von Karman plate model by introducing the newly defined position of the reference plane which enables us to easily deal with the problem. The critical buckling loads of the simply supported rectangular plate are presented using the derived fundamental relations. Effects of material inhomogeneity, material orthotropy, aspect ratio, width-to-thickness ratio and load ratio are discussed.
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