THREE-DIMENSIONAL EXACT SOLUTION FOR THE THERMO-MECHANICAL STRESSES IN CROSS-PLY RECTANGULAR LAMINATED PLATES

摘要

The 3D thermo-mechanical analysis of isotropic crossply rectangular laminated composite plates is made in this paper in terms of variable separation approach and series solving method for ordinary differential equation. The plate is simply supported at four edges and is subjected to thermo-mechanical loadings on its top and bottom surfaces respectively.Furthermore some numerical results for the temperature distribution, the displacement and stress fields of a three layers alumina fiber reinforced laminated composite plate are shown in figures and briefly discussed.