Composite laminates are increasingly being used as primary load bearing members in<br />structures. However, because of the directional dependence of the properties of<br />composite materials, additional failure modes appear that are absent in<br />homogeneous, isotropic materials. Therefore, a stress analysis of a composite<br />laminate is not complete without an accurate representation of the transverse<br />(out-of-plane) stresses.<br /><br />Stress recovery is a common method to estimate the transverse stresses from a<br />plate or shell analysis. This dissertation extends stress recovery to problems<br />in which geometric nonlinearities, in the sense of von K\\\'rm\\\'{a}n, are<br />important. The current work presents a less complex formulation for the stress<br />recovery procedure for plate geometries, compared with other implementations,<br />and results in a post-processing procedure which can be applied to data from<br />any plate analyses; analytical or numerical methods, resulting in continuous or<br />discretized data.<br /><br />Recovered transverse stress results are presented for a variety of<br />geometrically nonlinear example problems: a semi-infinite plate subjected to<br />quasi-static transverse and shear loading, and a finite plate subjected to both<br />quasi-static and dynamic transverse loading. For all cases, the corresponding<br />results from a fully three-dimensional stress analysis are shown alongside the<br />distributions from the stress recovery procedure. Good agreement is observed<br />between the stresses obtained from each method for the cases considered.<br />Discussion is included regarding the applicability and accuracy of the<br />technique to varying plate geometries and varying degrees of nonlinearity, as<br />well as the viability of the procedure in replacing a three-dimensional<br />analysis in regard to the time required to obtain a solution.<br /><br />The proposed geometrically nonlinear stress recovery procedure results in<br />estimations for transverse stresses which show good correlation to the<br />three-dimensional finite element solutions. The procedure is accurate for<br />quasi-static and dynamic loading cases and proves to be a viable replacement<br />for more computationally expensive analyses. / Ph. D.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/50597 |
| Date | 01 May 2013 |
| Creators | Hartman, Timothy Benjamin |
| Contributors | Engineering Science and Mechanics, Case, Scott W., Hyer, Michael W., Batra, Romesh C., West, Robert L., Ross, Shane D. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Dissertation |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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