ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED

COMPOSITE CYLINDRICAL SHELLS UNDER

UNIFORMLY DISTRIBUTED LOAD
JOHARE KIRAN NAMDEV
SEAT NO:-MCSII006

Structural Engineering Department,

Sardar Patel College of Engineering, Mumbai
Year 2016-2017
 WHAT IS SHELL ELEMENT ????
shell element are curved and carry loads
by membrane forces and bending forces.
shells can carry high loads. However localised
bending strsses will appear near load
concentration or at boundaries or geometrical
discontinuities.
The shell element in general is able to transmit
the loads by membrane stresses which act
parallel to a tangential plate at a given point of
middle surface and distrubuted uniformly over
the thickness of shell.
 COMPOSITE MATERIAL.
A composite is a structural material that
consists of two or more combined
constituents that are combined at a
macroscopic level and are not soluble in each
other.
One constituent is called the reinforcing phase
and the one in which it is embedded is called
the matrix.
 COMPOSITE MATERIAL
reinforcing phace = fibre , particals , flakes.
Matrix phase = continuous
Inorganic material = glass , carbon , boron
Organic material = aramid , kevlar
Metalic material = aluminium
Non-metalic material = polyester, epoxy,
ceramics
 METHOD OF ANALYSIS???
finite difference method
dynamic relaxation method
finite element method
energy method Rayleigh method, Rayleigh-
Ritz method
SELECTION OF SHELL ELEMENT
SELECTION OF SHELL ELEMENT

Figure 4.2 Eight noded curved quadratic isoparametric

element
SELECTION OF SHELL ELMENT
SELECTION OF SHAPE FUNCTION
In an isoparametric formulation the generalized
displacements and coordinates are interpolated
from their nodal values by the same set of shape
functions. Hence, the coordinates (x, y) of any point
within an element are obtained as:

where xi and yi are the coordinates of the ith

node.
GENERALISED DISPLACEMENT FIELD
AND NODAL DISPLACEMENT
 STRAIN DISPLACEMENT
RELETIONSHIP
The strain-displacement relations on the basis of
improved first order approximation theory for thin
shell are established as:
 STRAIN DISPLACEMENT
RELETIONSHIP
where, the first vector is the mid-surface
strain and the second vector is the curvature
and are related to degrees of freedom as:

And
 STRAIN DISPLACEMENT
RELETIONSHIP..
The strain components of the equations (4.13)
and (4.14) are to be considered together for
generalized representation of the three
dimensional strain field and are expressed in
the following form
 FORCE- STRAIN RELETIONSHIP
The shell thickness is assumed to be made of a composite
laminate which, in turn, may consist of a number of thin
laminae.
The principal material axes are indicated by 1 and 2 and the
moduli of elasticity of a lamina along these two directions are
E11 and E22 respectively.
If the major and minor Poissons ratios are v12 and v21, then
using the reciprocal relation one obtains:-
FORCE STRAIN RELETIONSHIP
 FORCE STRAIN RELETIONSHIP
In order to obtain the elastic constant matrix corresponding to
any arbitrary. principal axes, which make an angle, appropriate
transformation is required. Thus the off-axis elastic constant
matrix is obtained from the on-axis elastic constant matrix as:
To take care of the transverse shear deformation, the
corresponding off-axis elastic constant matrix is given as:
Since the laminate consists of a number of laminae. The total
stress resultants of an np-layer laminate are expressed as:-
In the above equations zk and zk-1 are the distances measured from the
midsurface of a laminate to the bottom of the kth and (k-1) th laminate,
respectively. (Qij)k is the offaxis elastic constant matrix for the kth lamina. The
8 8 matrix in equation (4.37) is termed as the laminate stiffness matrix [D]. Fi and
Fj are two factors presently taken as unity for thin shells.
FORMULATION OF ELEMENT
STIFFNESS MATRIX.
 CONCLUSION.
It is inferred that, the load carrying capacity of
single layered laminates may be studied
theoretically to get a basis of appropriate
tailoring the fibre orientation of multi-layered
laminates.
The cross ply shells have increased capacity of
resisting super imposed uniformly distributed
load
As the shell curvature is increased, the relation
being somewhat linear.
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