Nonlinear stability and dynamics of composite skew plates under nonuniform loadings using differential quadrature method

Abstract

The buckling, postbuckling and postbuckled vibration behaviour of composite skew plates subjected to nonuniform inplane loadings are presented here. The skew plate is modelled using first order shear deformation theory accounting for von-Kármán geometric nonlinearity and initial geometric imperfections. The different types of nonuniform loads that have been considered in this study are concentrated load, partial load and parabolic load. The explicit analytical expressions for prebuckling stress distributions within composite skew plate subjected to three different types of nonuniform inplane loadings are developed by solving plane elasticity problem using Airy's stress function approach. It is observed that the inplane normal stress distributions within the skew plate due to above nonuniform loadings do not become uniform even at mid-section. The generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method is used to solve the nonlinear governing partial differential equations. It is observed that the postbuckled load carrying capacity of skew plate under concentrated loading is the lowest compared to other nonuniform and uniform loadings.