A HIGHER ORDER THEORY FOR STATIC–DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED PLATES USING A WARPING MODEL

A higher order theory is developed to model the behaviour of laminated plates. This theory is based on a warping theory of plate deformation developed by Hassis [1]. Through comparison with elasticity solutions obtained with classical models [2–6] and the higher order theory of Lo et al.[7, 8], it is shown that the present theory correctly models effects not attainable by the low order theories.