Large deformation flexural behavior of laminated composite skew plates: An analytical approach

The paper presents the large deformation flexural response of composite laminated skew plates subjected to uniform transverse pressure. Third order shear deformation theory (TSDT) and von-Karman’s nonlinearity is used for the analysis. Skew domain is mapped into a square domain and finite degree double Chebyshev series is used to discretize the space domain. No grid generation is required in the present solution technique. The nonlinear equations are linearized using quadratic extrapolation technique and the behavior of moderately thick laminated composite skew plates is studied. The effects of geometric nonlinearity, transverse shear, boundary conditions, aspect ratio and modular ratio on the behavior of laminated composite skew plates are discussed in detail.