Application of ply level analysis to flexural wave propagation

Abstract A brief survey is presented of the shear deformation theories of laminated plates. It indicates that there are certain non-classical influences that affect bending-related behavior in the same way as do the transverse shear stresses. They include bending- and stretching-related section warping and the concomitant non-classical surface parallel stress contributions and the transverse normal stress. A bending theory gives significantly improved performance if these non-classical affects are incorporated. The heterogeneous shear deformations that are characteristic of laminates with highly dissimilar materials, however, require that attention be paid to the modeling of local rotations. In this paper, it is shown that a ply level analysis can be used to model such disparate shear deformations. Here, equilibrium of each layer is analyzed separately. Earlier applications of this analysis include free-edge laminate stresses. It is now extended to the study of flexural wave propagation in laminates. A recently developed homogeneous plate theory is used as a ply level model. Due consideration is given to the non-classical influences and no shear correction factors are introduced extraneously in this theory. The results for the lowest flexural mode of travelling planar harmonic waves indicate that this approach is competitive and yields better results for certain laminates.

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