Stability of Antisymmetric Angle‐Ply Laminated Plates

Abstract

An exact solution to the buckling of antisymmetric angle‐ply laminated plates is developed for a variety of boundary conditions. The procedure, based on a generalized Lévy type solution considered in conjunction with the state space concept, is applicable to rectangular plates with two opposite edges simply supported and the remaining ones subjected to a combination of clamped, simply supported, and free boundary conditions. The solutions are obtained for the Yang, Norris, and Stavsky (YNS) theory which is a generalization of Mindlin's theory for isotropic plates to laminated anisotropic plates and includes shear deformation.