THERMAL BUCKLING RESPONSE OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATE WITH RANDOM SYSTEM PROPERTIES

Abstract

This paper deals with second-order statistics of buckling temperature of shear deformable laminated composite plates resting on elastic foundation with random system properties. The temperature field is assumed to be a uniform distribution over the plate surface and through the plate thickness. The material properties are assumed to be independent of temperature. Based on the higher-order deformation theory, C0 finite element in conjunction with mean-centered first-order perturbation technique is proposed and applied to derive the random thermal eigenvalue problems. A detailed parametric study is carried out to highlight the sensitivity of the response. The results are compared with existing and Monte Carlo simulation.