An exact solution is obtained for the three-dimensional deformations of simply supported laminated rectangular thick plates with embedded shear mode piezoelectric actuators, subjected to mechanical and electrical loading on the upper and lower surfaces. Each layer of the laminate is made of either an orthotropic elastic material or a piezoelectric material whose poling direction lies in the pla...

Abstract The stability behaviour of unsymmetrical laminated structures made fibre-reinforced plastics is significantly influenced by bending–extension coupling and the comparatively low transverse shear stiffnesses. aim this work to improve analytical analysis unsymmetrically structures. With discrete plate theory, can be reduced single plates. structure divided into individual segments, surrou...

Nonlinear plate bending within Mindlin's strain gradient elasticity theory (SGT) is investigated by employing somewhat non-standard finite element methods. The main goal to compare the results provided geometrically nonlinear three-dimensional (3D) and Reissner–Mindlin theory, i.e., first-order shear deformation (FSDT), SGT. For 3D Green–Lagrange relations are adopted, while von Kármán strains ...

present paper is devoted to stress and deformation analyses of heated variable thickness functionally graded (fg) circular plate with clamped supported, embedded on a gradient elastic foundation and subjected to non-uniform transverse load. the plate is coupled by an elastic medium which is simulated as a winkler- pasternak foundation with gradient coefficients in the radial and circumferential...