Abstract: A stress-function-based variational method is used to determine the thermal stresses in a layered beam with inclined free edges at the two ends. The stress functions are expressed in terms of ...

Abstract: A variational method involving stress functions is used to determine the interlaminar stresses and the free-edge effects in a laminated beam under a temperature loading. The stress function in ...

Abstract: The intense, localized stress field produced by a temperature load in a multilayered structure may be significantly affected by the local geometry of the free edge. We examine here the stepped ...

Abstract: A unified formalism is presented for theoretical analysis of plane anisotropic elasticity and piezoelectricity, unsymmetric anisotropic plates, and other two-dimensional problems of continua with ...

Abstract: Degenerate and extra-degenerate anisotropic elastic materials have repeated material eigenvalues whose multiplicity is greater than the number of independent eigensolutions. Using basic elasticity ...

Abstract: A simple formulation, directly in terms of the local variables of the laminated plate theory, is used to derive the general expression of the energy release rate at a boundary point of an ...

Abstract: Interlaminar stresses near the free edge of a multi-layered structure under thermal and mechanical loads are significantly affected by nonlinear and inelastic material properties. Most previous ...