Hygrothermally induced buckling analysis of elastically supported laminated composite plates with random system properties

Abstract

The article presents hygrothermally induced buckling of geometrically linear laminated composite plates resting on two parameters Pasternak elastic foundation subjected to moisture and temperature-independent and -dependent material properties with random system properties. System properties such as elastic moduli, shear moduli of the constituent materials, hygroscopic contraction coefficients, thermal expansion coefficients, and foundation stiffness parameters are modeled as independent basic random variables. A computationally efficient C ⁰ finite element method combined with Taylor series based mean-centered first-order perturbation technique via higher order shear deformation plate theory is used to solve the random eigenvalue problem. Typical numerical results for dimensional mean and coefficient of variance of hygrothermally induced buckling load of laminated composite plate subjected to uniform hygrothermal loadings are examined with uniform moisture concentration and temperature rise, plate thickness and aspect ratios, total number of plies, fiber orientations, elastic foundations, and different boundary conditions with random system properties. The numerical results obtained by the present solution approach are validated with those available in the literatures and independent Monte Carlo simulation.

Keywords

Hygrothermally induced buckling analysis elastic foundation composite plates random system properties

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