STATIC RESPONSES OF ANTI-SYMMETRICAL ANGLE-PLY LAMINATED SHEAR-FLEXIBLE CLAMPED PLATES

Moderately-thick anti-symmetric angle-ply laminated clamped plates, su bjected to uniform distributed loads, are critically investigated usin g analytical and finite element techniques. A recently developed gener alized Navier approach based on Reissner-Mindlin shear deformation the ory is used for the analytical investigation, while a four-node quadri lateral element due to Bathe and Dvorkin is employed for the finite el ement solution. Numerical results presented for various parametric res ponses are compared with the available thin plate-based analytical sol utions. The numerical results thus presented should serve as bench-mar ks for future comparisons.