A Bending-Gradient model for thick plates, Part II: Closed-form solutions for cylindrical bending of laminates

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOLIDS AND STRUCTURES

卷:48

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Lebee, A.¹  Sab, K.¹ 

[1] Univ Paris Est, Lab Navier, Ecole Ponts ParisTech, IFSTTAR,CNRS, F-77455 Marne La Vallee, France

关键词: Plate theory;    Higher-order models;    Laminated plates;    Composite plates;    Shear effects;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2011.06.005

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

In the first part (Lebee and Sab, 2010a) of this two-part paper we have presented a new plate theory for out-of-plane loaded thick plates where the static unknowns are those of the Kirchhoff-Love theory (3 in-plane stresses and 3 bending moments), to which six components are added representing the gradient of the bending moment. The new theory, called Bending-Gradient plate theory is an extension to arbitrarily layered plates of the Reissner-Mindlin plate theory which appears as a special case when the plate is homogeneous. Moreover, we demonstrated that, in the general case, the Bending-Gradient model cannot be reduced to a Reissner-Mindlin model. In this paper, the Bending-Gradient theory is applied to laminated plates and its predictions are compared to those of Reissner-Mindlin theory and to full 3D (Pagano, 1969) exact solutions. The main conclusion is that the Bending-Gradient gives good predictions of deflection, shear stress distributions and in-plane displacement distributions in any material configuration. Moreover, under some symmetry conditions, the Bending-Gradient model coincides with the second-order approximation of the exact solution as the slenderness ratio L/h goes to infinity. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

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