Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8058535 | Aerospace Science and Technology | 2016 | 20 Pages |
Abstract
This paper presents a generalized layerwise higher-order shear deformation theory for static, free vibration and buckling analyses of symmetric laminated composite and sandwich plates using improved meshfree radial point interpolation method (iRPIM). The approach comes from a layerwise model combined with a generalized higher-order shear deformation theory. In other words, we impose the continuity on the interface of each layer for the in-plane displacements and transverse shear stresses. This yields more adequate solution for sandwich structures which present the significant difference of properties between the core sheet and the face ones. As a result, transverse shear stresses are accurately achieved as compared with the analytical ones. The present iRPIM shows stability and high accuracy with respect to the uniquely proposed correlation function. A simple but effective enforcement based on the concept of the rotation-free of essential boundary conditions yields significant advantage of computations. The numerical results are provided and compared well with other published solutions.
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Authors
Hoang-Hiep Phan-Dao, Chien H. Thai, Jaehong Lee, Hung Nguyen-Xuan,