摘要

An efficient high-fidelity plate model is developed for heterogeneous multilayer laminates made of functionally graded material. Taking advantage of the smallness of the ratio of the thickness to the characteristic wavelength of the deformation of the reference surface, we apply the variational-asymptotic method to rigorously decouple the three-dimensional, anisotropic elasticity problem into a one-dimensional through-the-thickness analysis and a two-dimensional plate analysis. The through-the-thickness analysis provides constitutive relations for the plate analysis as well as the recovery information for the three-dimensional fields, reducing the complex three-dimensional elasticity model to a simple two-dimensional plate model with an excellent tradeoff between efficiency and accuracy. The present model is valid for large displacements and global rotations and can capture all the geometric nonlinearity of a plate when the strains are small. A few examples are used to validate this model.

  • 出版日期2010-6