Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics
On Bending Response of Doubly Curved Laminated Composite Shells Using Hybrid Refined Models
Document Type : Research Paper
Authors
1 Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, National University of Engineering, Av. Tupac Amaru 210, Rimac, Lima, Peru
2 Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Surco, Lima, Peru
Abstract
This paper presents a static analysis of laminated composite doubly-curved shells using refined kinematic models with polynomial and non-polynomial functions recently introduced in the literature. To be specific, Maclaurin, trigonometric, exponential and zig-zag functions are employed. The employed refined models are based on the equivalent single layer theories. A simply supported shell is subjected to different mechanical loads, specifically: bi-sinusoidal, uniform, patch, hydrostatic pressure and point load. The governing equations are derived from the Principle of Virtual displacement and solved via Navier-Type closed form solutions. The results are compared with results from Layer-wise solutions and different higher order shear deformation theories available. It is shown that refined models with non-polynomial terms are able to accurately predict the through-the-thickness displacement and stress distributions maintaining less computational effort compared to a Layer-wise models.
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