Abstract: The elastic-plastic behavior of a (0/90) symmetric FP-Al plate containing a circular hole is investigated using the finite-element method. Of principal concern are plastic yielding at the circular ...

Abstract: Elastic-plastic behavior of symmetric metal-matrix composite laminates is analyzed for the case of in-plane mechanical loading. The overall response of the laminate at each instant is derived ...

Abstract: The elastic-plastic behavior of composites consisting of aligned, continuous elastic filaments and an elastic-plastic matrix is described in terms of constituent properties, their volume fractions, ...