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J. N. Reddy
Professor,
Department of Engineering
Laminated Composite Plates
Science and Mechanics, A higher-order shear deformation theory of laminated composite plates is
Virginia Polytechnic Institute developed. The theory contains the same dependent unknowns as in the first-order
and State University, shear deformation theory of Whitney and Pagano [6], but accounts for parabolic
Blacksburg, Va. 24061 distribution of the transverse shear strains through the thickness of the plate. Exact
Mem. ASME closed-form solutions of symmetric cross-ply laminates are obtained and the results
are compared with three-dimensional elasticity solutions and first-order shear
deformation theory solutions. The present theory predicts the deflections and
stresses more accurately when compared to the first-order theory.
1 Introduction
The classical theory of plates, in which it is assumed that plates that accurately describes the global behavior of
normals to the midplane before deformation remain straight laminated plates seems to be a compromise between accuracy
and normal to the plane after deformation, underpredicts and ease of analysis. The present study deals with such a
deflections and overpredicts natural frequencies and buckling theory.
loads. These results are due to the neglect of transverse shear The present theory accounts not only for transverse shear
strains in the classical theory. The errors in deflections, strains, but also for a parabolic variation of the transverse
stresses, natural frequencies, and buckling loads are even shear strains through thickness, and consequently, there is no
higher for plates made of advanced composites like graphite- need to use shear correction coefficients in computing the
epoxy and boron-epoxy, whose elastic modulus to shear shear stresses. During the course of the development of the
modulus ratios are very large (e.g., of the order of 25 to 40, present theory, it was brought to the attention of the author
instead of 2.6 for typical isotropic materials). These high [12] that Levinson [13] and Murthy [14] presented similar
ratios render classical theories inadequate for the analysis of theories for isotropic and laminated plates, respectively. The
composite plates. An adequate theory must account for displacement fields used by these two researchers are different
transverse shear strains. from each other and therefore the final equations are dif-
Many plate theories exist that account for transverse shear ferent. Although the displacement fields used in the present
strains. Of these, the theories based on assumed displacement theory and that of Levinson [13] are the same, the equations
fields provide a background for the present theory [1-8]. In of motion differ from those of both Levinson and Murthy.
Reissner-Mindlin type-theories, the displacement field ac- Both Levinson and Murthy used the equilibrium equations of
counts for linear or higher-order variations of midplane the first-order shear deformation theory (see Whitney and
displacements through thickness (see [1-8]). In higher-order Pagano [6]). These equations are variationally inconsistent,
theories, an additional dependent unknown is introduced into for the displacement field used, with those derived from the
the theory with each additional power of the thickness principle of virtual displacements. These authors justify their
coordinate. In addition, these shear deformation theories do approach merely because the variational approach is
not satisfy the conditions of zero transverse shear stresses on algebraically more complicated. Such justifications are not
the top and bottom surfaces of the plate, and require a shear only unwarranted but they lead to technically wrong theories.
correction to the transverse shear stiffnesses. The three- The correct forms of differential equations and boundary
dimensional theories of laminates, in which each layer is conditions for any theory based on assumed displacement
treated as homogeneous anisotropic medium (see Green and field are not known without using the virtual work principles.
Naghdi [9], Rehfield and Valisetty [10], and Pagano and Soni The present development is novel in two respects: first a
[11]), are intractable as the number of layers becomes consistent derivation of the displacement field and associated
moderately large. Thus, a simple two-dimensional theory of equilibrium equations is presented. Second, the theory is
developed for laminated anisotropic composite plates. To
illustrate the accuracy of the present theory, exact solutions
Contributed by the Applied Mechanics Division and presented at the Winter are also presented for symmetrically laminated cross-ply
Annual Meeting, New Orleans, La., December 9-14, 1984 of THE AMERICAN rectangular plates.
SOCIETY OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERS.
Discussion on this paper should be addressed to the Editorial Department,
ASME, United Engineering Center, 345 East 47th Street, New York, N.Y.
10017, and will be accepted until two months after final publication of the
paper itself in the JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS. Manuscript received by Kinematics
ASME Applied Mechanics Division, July 1983; final revision, April, 1984.
Paper No. 84-WA/APM-34. The present theory uses a displacement approach, much like
Copies will be available until August, 1985. in the Reissner-Mindlin type theories. However, the
4
du->
+
du 3
=h+2zy + 3z2L +
dw
(3)
m_ " 244 0 "
(S (8)
dz dy
Setting 65{x,y, h/2) and t4{x,y, h/2) to zero, we obtain
^5 J _ 0 255 .
UJ
x=0, f,=0 where Q,j are the plane-stress-reduced elastic constants in the
material axes of the layer, and the bar over the quantities
4 4 implies that the quantities are referred to the material axes of
(4)
Sx=- +
Jh2 (^ **)> Jh2 (--*-) the layer. Upon transformation, the lamina constitutive
equations can be expressed in terms of stresses and strains in
The displacement field in equation (1) becomes
2
the plate (laminate) coordinates as
' dw
u, = u + z
<t\ " 21 2l2 2l6 fe,
"2 v + z\
H(I)V^)] (5)
o2
6^
=
.
Ql2
2l6
222
226
226
266 _
- ^2
.e6 (9)
u, = w
This displacement field is the same as that chosen by
Levinson [13] (the inplane displacements were not considered [Sl- 244 245
TM
by Levinson), but is different from that derived by Murthy
[14]. Except for the similarity between the form of the l<^ -245 255 J l^5sJ
displacement field in equation (5) and that of Levinson [13]
and Murthy [14], the remaining development, especially the
where Q,: are the transformed material constants.
derivation of the equilibrium equations for laminated plates,
is novel with the present study.
The strains associated with the displacements in equation Equilibrium Equations
(l)are
e,=e?+z(/c?+z2/c2) Here we use the principle of virtual displacements to derive
the equilibrium equations appropriate for the displacement
e2 = e2+z(K2+Z2K22) field in equation (1) and constitutive equations in equation
3 =0 (6) (9). The principle of virtual displacements can be stated in
analytical form as (see Reddy [15])
e4 c
= 64+z %
f0 2
U2
1
f - 4- 7 /1/2 <
e
5 ts+Z K5 I (ffiSe! + a28e2 + o68e6 + ff46e4 + o55e5)dAdz
2
e6 = e6+z(K6+Z Kl) ft/2. J it
w=0
v
y b
1^=0
pro
w=
*x=M2=P2=0"
Fig. 1 Geometry of a rectangular plate
.5
+ Qx \**x + -^) +R, [- # {tyx + -^ )\^w\dxdy (10)
.3
where in arriving at the second step, we used the strains from | L FSDT
equations (6) and (7), and the following definitions of the z-' I I
h
stress resultants Nh Mh Ph g, and i?,: .1 .2
pA/2 -.]
A/2
(Qi.*i) = J - A / 2 s0,z2)dz (ID
Integrating the expressions in equation (10) by parts, and
collecting the coefficients of 8u, 8v, 8w, 8\[/x, and 5 ^ , we ^HSDT
-.5
8v: ^ +^2=0
dx dy
(a) From c o n s t i t u t i v e equations (b) From equilibrium equations
.dQ2 4 /8Rt dR2\
&w: + +Q +
Fig. 2 The distribution of transverse shear stresses through the
dx -3j
dy -\lx- -dy-) thickness of four-layer cross-ply [0/90/90/0 deg] laminate under
sinusoidal load (alb = 1;a//> = 10)
d2Pt
2 (
3h2 \ dx2
3h V
+2
dxdy dy1 )- (12)
where T is the boundary of the plate midplane Q, and
dMi dM6 u=unx + vny, us= -uny + vnx
Sfc dy Qi + ^Ri
dx Nn =Nln x+ N2n2 + 2N6nxny
2
tins or Ns d d d d d d
n
w or Q (13) dn dx * ds ds dy "Tx
dw and P and Pm are defined by expressions analogous to N
-= or P and Nns, respectively.
dn
It is informative to relate the resultants defined in equation
in or M (11) to the total strains in equation (6). From equations (6),
i,,s or Mns (9), and (11) we obtain
P>
-
1 symmetric Hu Hl2
H22
-#16
- K
Pi #26 2
^Pe J ^ sym. #66 ^ L6 j
(15a)
QS
fe4]
A 44 ^4 45 >44 >45 N
2 = A,2 hy422 -T
G> . = . ^55 045 055 8 dx dy
-
( du dv \
*2 F 4 4 F 45 2 N<
sym.
*J L ^55 J ^52J (15ft)
(A/2
(>l, y ,) y .,F i / .)= ] hn Q, y (l,z\z 4 )rfz (i, y = 4,5) (16) d2W
tyy
This completes the derivation of the governing equations. It (-)( dy dy2 )
should be noted that Levinson [13] and Murthy [14] did not
account for the underlined terms in equations (12).
R2=D
Mi = Au
dx
+^i2^-
dy {^+*)+F(-^ +
^P)
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ll c
12 c
13 f w -^
TT
\lmrx
mn
(21) C
12 C
22 c
23
y
- ^mn + = - 0 (23)
4 \P a2
^^A/ ( 4
va2** + 3 3
M 8 / 4\2
c12=aA5S-~aD55 + ^ J aF55
3F
92h 4 3 2
+ F, 2[a Fn+al3 (Fn+2F66)]
dxdy 2h
(whiE1\ a b\
"H>=( j - )l0, w = w[ , )
\ <7o ' \ 2 2 /
( A. h \ hl
_ (f_ A h
\ h
h
a4 = aJ ^-,0,0) , as = a5(o, ,o)
N2 / q0a V 2 /
( h \ h2
\ 2 / gna2
Table 3 Nondimensionalized" deflections and stresses in four-layer cross-ply (0/90/90/0 deg) square
laminates under sinusoidal transverse loads
a/h Source w Ol a2 04 5 6
Elasticity [17] 1.954 0.720 0.663 0.292 0.291 0.0467
4 Present theory 1.8937 0.6651 0.6322 0.2389 0.2064 0.0440
FSDT [18]* 1.7100 0.4059 0.5765 0.1963 0.1398 0.0308
Three-dimensional elasticity 0.743 0.559 0.401 0.196 0.301 0.0275
10 Present theory 0.7147 0.5456 0.3888 0.1531 0.2640 0.0268
FSDT 0.6628 0.4989 0.3615 0.1292 0.1667 0.0241
Three-dimensional elasticity 0.517 0.543 0.308 0.156 0.328 0.0230
20 Present theory 0.5060 0.5393 0.3043 0.1234 0.2825 0.0228
FSDT 0.4912 0.5273 0.2957 0.1087 0.1749 0.0221
Three-dimensional elasticity 0.4385 0.539 0.276 0.141 0.337 0.0216
100 Present theory 0.4343 0.5387 0.2708 0.1117 0.2897 0.0213
FSDT 0.4337 0.5382 0.2705 0.1009 0.1780 0.0213
" Same nondimensionalization as used in Table 1, except &2 is evaluated at (x,y,z) (a/2, a/2, h/4).
b
Shear correction factors, k\ = k\ = 5/6.
Numerical Results
Here we present numerical results for a couple of symmetric
I I cr
cross-ply plate problems, and discuss the improvement in the
prediction of displacements and stresses by the present theory.
The three-dimensional elasticity solutions of Pagano [16] and
Pagano and Hatfield [17] for simply supported rectangular
plates under sinusoidal loading are used to assess the im-
provement. The following four laminated plate problems are
considered:
1. A three-ply square laminate with layers of equal
thickness and subject to sinusoidally distributed tran-
sverse load.
VE2 2. The same lamination geometry and loading as in
Fig. 3 The effect of material anisotropy on the nondimensionalized Problem 1, except the laminate is of rectangular
center deflection of a four-layer [0/90/90/0 deg] square plate under geometry (b/a = 3).
sinusoidal load 3. A four-ply square laminate with layers of equal
thickness and subjected to sinusoidally distributed
+ (3^) [ 3 / / + a ^ ( / / , 2 +2// 6 6 )] transverse load.
4. The same geometry and lamination scheme as in
2 Problem 1 except the load is uniformly distributed.
8 / 4 \
In all problems, the lamina properties are assumed to be
Ex = 25 X 106 psi (174.6 GPa), E2 = 106 psi (7 GPa)
2 6
j^[a m2+2F66) + pF21] Gn = G13 =0.5 x 10 psi (3.5 GPa) (27)
6
G23 = 0.2 x 10 psi (1.4 GPa), c12 = pl3 = 0.25
+ 2 [ci2 H Tables 1-4 contain nondimensionalized deflections and
(jh ) ^ n+2H66) + pH22]
stresses for the four problems. For Problems 1, and 2, the
results obtained using the present theory are compared with
c22 =A+aiDll +P2D66 - ~D55 + (^Y F55 those obtained by the three-dimensional elasticity theory (see
[16, 17]) and the first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT)
(see Reddy and Chao [18]). In Table 1 the results obtained
using various shear correction coefficients in the first-order
~ 3F(a2jF" +02F +
^ (3^2) 2 (2Hu+pH66) shear deformation theory are also included. Note that the
shear correction factor of 5/6 can also be arrived from the
c23 =ap[Dl2 +D66 - ^{Fu +F66)+ ( A ) * (Hn +H66)] present theory. For example, the average shear force per unit
length of an edge prependicular to the x-axis is given by
(e 5 ) a ; -w \ sdz
2J
- ^ 2 ( 2 F 6 6 + ?F22) + ( ~ ) 2
W2H22 + a2H66) (24)
ro-S)*M-s-*')
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