Buckling of sandwich cylindrical shells with shear deformable core through nondimensional parameters

This paper presents the derivation of nondimensional buckling equations of sandwich cylindrical shells made of composite facesheets with a shear deformable core. The procedure yields an analytical solution in terms of a series of nondimensional parameters for the axial buckling load investigating the influence of the core transverse shear. The...

Thermal-mechanical buckling of composite plates for aerospace applications

A closed-form solution is proposed for determining the buckling of composite plates under combined thermal-mechanical loading. The plates are subjected to a constant temperature increment, combined with applied displacement, while transversal in-plane expansion is restricted. The plates are studied using Von Kármán equations in combination with...