The geometrically nonlinear laminated annular plate structure with nonlinear viscoelastic orthotropic composite is considered using the dynamic relaxation (DR) method for the first time in the present study. The DR technique in conjunction with the finite difference discretization is used to study the behavior of a Mindlin plate. The plate is made of nonlinear viscoelastic orthotropic material expressed by the Schapery single integral model. A recursive-iterative formulation is implemented for the hereditary integral of the material. Under uniform lateral pressure and clamped and hinged edged constraints, the unsymmetrical laminated sector plate deformation is predicted in different times. The present results are compared with the elastic finite element (FE) generated numerical results. The correlations are very satisfactory. The load-center deflections for linear and nonlinear viscoelastic material plate along the symmetrical radial line for elastic and viscoelastic plate are illustrated. The dimensionless deflection results for up to 480min are predicted to show the creep behavior of the material. Finally, the dimensionless stress couple results are obtained after 8 h creep time for a graphite/epoxy composite plate.
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