Thermal Bending Analysis of Doubly Curved Composite Laminated Shell Panels with General Boundary Conditions and Laminations

Abstract

Thermal bending analysis of doubly curved laminated shell panels with general boundary conditions and laminations is presented. The equations of equilibrium are derived in the form of two coupled sets of ordinary differential equations based on a general shell theory and solved through the state-space approach in a repeated manner. It is depicted that the results of the present method are in great agreement with analytical solutions. Cylindrical shell panels with general boundary conditions and laminations, where no analytical solution is available, are solved. It is found that the present method exhibits a high convergence rate as well as presenting accurate results in all cases.

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“…Free dynamic responses of a symmetrically laminated composite shell are used to analyze a nonlinear differential panel by Hashemian and Jam (2010). A thermal bending analysis of doubly curved laminated shell panels with general boundary conditions and laminations is presented by Maghami and Tahani (2015). Khdeir (2012) investigated thermal deformations in cross-ply laminated shells by state space approach.…”