Buckling Of Laminated Plates with Random Material Characteristics

This paper models the effect of material parameter randomness on the initial buckling load of rectangular, specially orthotropic, composite laminates. The basic formulation for stability analysis is based on classical laminate theory. A perturbation technique is used to obtain the solution of the governing equation. The effects of aspect ratio and change in standard deviation of the input parameters have been investigated for several laminate configurations. The solution has also been checked with the help of Monte Carlo simulation.