Buckling of Simply Supported Skew Plates

The buckling problems of simply supported skew plates with in-plane stresses represented in terms of orthogonal components are considered by using the Rayleigh-Ritz method, employing a double Fourier sine series in oblique coordinates. Results for the buckling coefficients for different combinations of side-ratio and skew angle are provided mainly when each of the in-plane stresses is acting singly. Results include buckling coefficients under positive shear which are hitherto unavailable in the literature.