An enhanced FSDT model for the calculation of interlaminar shear stresses in composite plate structures

摘要

In this paper a procedure is proposed to calculate the interlaminar shear stresses in layered composite plates. The transverse shear stresses are obtained via the constitutive law and derivatives of some warping functions. For 4-node elements the derivatives of curvatures and strains of the reference surface with respect to the in-plane coordinates are determined through a system of four equations. Hence the equilibrium equations lead to a coupled system of ordinary differential equations, which are solved applying a displacement method. The resulting interlaminar shear stresses are continuous at the layer boundaries. The quality of the obtained results is demonstrated within several plate examples with symmetric and unsymmetric lay-ups. Comparisons with two other approaches using 9-node elements and a solid shell formulation together with a three-dimensional material law show good accuracy and efficiency of the proposed algorithm.