A Finite-Element Analysis of Bimodulus Composite Plates and Shells

摘要

The literature available in English on bending and vibration analyses of bimodulus plates is quite sparse and largely concerned with the bending of bimodulus isotropic-material plates. In the previous papers by the author and his colleagues, closed-form and finite-element results were reported for simply-supported plates and shells subjected sinusoidally distributed loadings. The present paper reports finite-element solutions for other boundary conditions and loadings which do not admit closed-form solutions.