Analysis of shear flexible symmetric angle-ply laminated all-edge clamped cylindrical panels

An analytical solution to symmetric angle-ply laminated shear-flexible cyli ndrical panels subjected to a uniformly distributed static load is presente d. A moderately-deep and space-thick shell theory, according to Sanders, is incorporated to account for the curvature effects as well as the effects o f transverse shear deformations into the shell formulation, resulting in hi ghly coupled five second-order partial differential equations in five unkno wns. They are solved in conjunction with all-edge clamped boundary conditio ns utilizing the methodology recently developed by Kabir and Chaudhuri (199 4). The numerical results presented for various parametric effects are comp ared with the available finite element method.