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The present work deals with the buckling and post-buckling behaviour of bimodular laminated composite plates. The fiber-governed bimodular constitutive model is adopted for the analysis and the geometrical nonlinearities are accounted for by using the consistent small strain and moderate rotation theory for a shear deformable Mindlin plate. Governing equations of the problem are developed and the finite element formulation is given using lagrangian C°-elements. Some numerical examples are developed to analyze the buckling and post-buckling behaviour of laminated bimodular plates.
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Communicated by B. Schrefler, 3 December 1993
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Bruno, D., Lato, S. & Sacco, E. Nonlinear analysis of bimodular composite plates under compression. Computational Mechanics 14, 28–37 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00350155
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