Buckling analysis of a laminate plate

Abstract

The paper deals with a modeling of laminate plates and with their buckling analysis. To predict the inception of buckling for plates in plane resultant forces must be included. The buckling analysis is made by the help of finite element method in program COSMOS/M. For rectangular laminate plate consisting of 4 layers with symmetric and antisymmetric stacking sequence a buckling analysis is carried out. In the illustrative example there are depicted buckling modes for symmetric laminates [30/-30]s, [45/-45]s, [60/-60]s, [90/-90]s and results of the buckling analysis for the symmetric and antisymmetric laminates.

Keywords

• laminated 2-D structures
• classical laminate theory
• buckling analysis
• finite element method