MECHANICS OF BIMODULAR COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

ABSTRACT This paper is a survey of the mechanics of beam and plate structures laminated of fiber-reinforced composite materials having different elastic and thermoelastic properties in tension and compression. Examples of such materials include tire cord-rubber, wire-reinforced solid propellants, and soft biological materials. Specific topics covered include: mathematical models of fiber-reinforced bimodular materials and their experimental verification; static and dynamic analysis of laminated and sandwich beams; plane elasticity; analysis of deflection and free and transient vibration of laminated plates and shells. In all of these analyses, thickness-shear deformation and rotatory inertia are included. The solution methods used include closed-form, transfer-matrix, and finite-element techniques.

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