An assessment is made of the accuracy of the critical-temperature sensitivity coefficients of multilayered plates predicted by different modeling approaches, based on two-dimensional shear-deformation theories. The sensitivity coefficients considered measure the sensitivity of the critical temperatures to variations in different lamination and material parameters of the plate. The standard of comparison is taken to be the sensitivity coefficients obtained by the three-dimensional theory of thermoelasticity. Numerical studies are presented showing the effects of variation in the geometric and lamination parameters of the plate on the accuracy of both the sensitivity coefficients and the critical temperatures predicted by the different modeling approaches.[K 2 ] m, n NL sft, s TOW 7 07 t u (i,j = 1,2, 3) tf?3, U&, t/13, 1/23 Nomenclature = material and lamination parameters of the plate = elastic moduli in the direction of fibers and normal to it = shear moduli in the plane of fibers and the plane normal to it = total thickness of the plate = distances from the bottom and top surfaces of the kih layer to the middle plane of the plate (see Fig. 1) = parameters identifying the numbers of displacement and strain components [see Eqs. (19), (20), and (23)] = linear stiffness matrix of the plate [see Eqs. (33)] = components of the matrix [K 0 ] [see Eqs. (A.5)] = matrices of initial stresses and initial displacements [see Eqs. (33)] = initial and corrected values of the composite shear correction factors = side lengths of the plate = Fourier harmonics in the x\ and x 2 directions = total number of layers of the plate = stress resultants [see Eqs. (25)] = critical value of T°= uniform temperature change = initial (prebuckling) stress resultants [see Eqs. (25)] = stress components [see Eqs. (10)] = transverse shear strain energy densities obtained from the first-order shear deformation theory and the three-dimensional equations, respectively (see Appendix A) OiT e u» e u y* 2T703, 7733 VLT, \ = 7T 2283 (4 y = l,2, 3) T 23 d, d 2 a/ Subscripts ft y, P 47 • • initial (prebuckling) and total displacements in the x a coordinate directions [see Eqs. (7)] = perturbation displacement componentsin the x a and x 3 directions, respectively [see Eqs. (7) and (8)] = perturbation displacement expansion parameters [see Eqs. (19) and (20)] = initial (prebuckling) and total transverse displacements [see Eqs. (8)] : vector of displacement parameters of the plate associated with the pair of harmonics (m, n); see Eqs. (33) Cartesian coordinate system = normalization factor for the coefficients of thermal expansion : coefficients of thermal expansion of the individual layers in the direction of fibers and normal to it, respectively = infinitesimal = total and initial strain components [see Eqs. (9)] = in-plane, transverse shear, and transverse normal strains of the plate [see Eqs. (13-15)] : strain expansion parameters [see Eqs.(21-23)] : fiber orientation angle : Poisson's ratios for the material of the individual layers = critical temperatu...