Thermal Bending of Laminated Composite Plates by a Meshless Method

Abstract:

The thermal bending response of laminated composite plates has been studied by the use of various higher order shear deformation theories of Levinson, Touratier, Karama and Aydogdu. The governing differential equations are discretized by a meshless method based on inverse multiquadric radial basis function. The center deflections of laminated composite plates subjected to sinusoidal temperature distribution are solved and compared with available published results to assess the performance of the present method.

• Periodical: Applied Mechanics and Materials (Volumes 433-435)
• Pages: 2008-2011
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.433-435.2008
• Online since: October 2013
• Authors: Song Xiang, Ying Tao Chen
• Keywords: Inverse Multiquadric, Laminated Composite Plates, Meshless, Radial Basis Function (RBF), Thermal Bending

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