STRESSES IN COMPOSITE CYLINDERS

A procedure for the stress analysis of open-ended laminated composite cylinders of arbitrary thickness is presented. A laminated cylinder is layered into a number of thin sheets, and each sheet is treated as an individual elastic shell. The formulation is based on the establishme nt of the basic solutions of a general layer and recurrence relations of interfacial stresses at adjacent interfaces. The analysis provides a systematic and effective procedure for determining stresses and defo rmations of layered cylinders of any thickness. Some verifications of the theory are presented, and numerical results are given for illustra ting the procedure.