STABILITY OF ASYMMETRICALLY BUILT AND LOADED MULTI-LAYERED RECTANGULAR SANDWICH-TYPE PLATES (FEM SOLUTIONS)

Abstract

The present report gives a review on the formulation of the mechanical/mathematical models of the stability of asymmetrically built and loaded rectangular multi-layered sandwich-type plates with (constructionally) orthotropic hard and transversally isotropic soft layers. The corresponding governing equations, boundary conditions and method of numerical (FEM) solution are given. The report shows the stability and post-buckling behaviour of asymmetrically compressed five-layered rectangular plate with Navier-type boundary conditions.