Lateral Equivalent Flexural Rigidity for a Top-Hat Stiffened Composite Plate under Pure Bending

摘要

This paper is concerned with the analytical solution to lateral equivalent flexural rigidity for fiber-reinforced top-hat stiffened composite plate subjected to pure bending. The plate is divided into three parts consist of single-laminate, double-laminate and hat-laminate. After computing equivalent flexural rigidity of the three parts respectively, the overall rigidity is calculated based on the equality of relative rotation angle. An example has been adopted for analytical calculation and then been modeled by finite elements method. A comparison was made to verify the validity of analytical method.