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This paper proposes a method for substantially improving the performance of the higher-order plate and shell theories in connection with the accurate stress analysis of homogeneous and laminated composite structural elements. The presentation of the method is based on the equations of the “general five-degrees-of-freedom” shear deformable plate theory. Since the method is entirely new, it is initially applied to the solution of the problem of simply supported plates deformed by cylindrical bending, for which there exists an exact elasticity solution [12]. Hence, its reliability is substantially validated by means of appropriate comparisons between numerical results based on the present plate theory and this exact elasticity solution. Moreover, the one-dimensional version of the present plate theory, employed for the cylindrical bending of plates, is considered as a general three-degrees-of-freedom shear deformable beam theory. This advanced beam theory is used for an accurate stress analysis of two-layered composite beams having one of their edges rigidly clamped and the other either rigidly clamped, free of tractions or simply supported. This final set of applications can be thought of alternatively as a stress analysis of two-layered plates deformed in cylindrical bending and subjected to several, different sets of edge boundary conditions.
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Soldatos, K.P., Watson, P. A method for improving the stress analysis performance of one- and two-dimensional theories for laminated composites. Acta Mechanica 123, 163–186 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01178408
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