END EFFECTS IN LAMINATED ANISOTROPIC BEAMS .2.

Art analytical method of examining the stress field near the edge of a simply supported laminated beam was developed in Part I of this paper . The result was a system of second-order, ordinary, linear nonhomogen eous differential equations. A numerical and analytical technique for solving these equations is presented in this paper. The method is a ve rsatile stress analysis procedure which can accommodate any combinatio n of material lay-up and can simulate any prescribed distribution of n ormal load on the upper and lower surfaces. The reactions at the ends of the beam may be distributed over the surface edges in a fashion mos t accurately characterizing the physical supports. An all-steel lay-up is examined as a basis for comparison with Bernoulli-Euler and Timosh enko theory; and a two-layered steel/aluminum beam is examined to simp ly demonstrate the method's capability of determining the interlaminar transverse shear and normal stresses.