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Thermal buckling and postbuckling of laminated composite beams with temperature-dependent properties

The thermalbucklingandpostbucklinganalysisoflaminatedcompositebeamswithtemperature-
dependentmaterialpropertiesispresented.Thegoverningequationsarebasedonthefirst-ordershear
deformationbeamtheory(FSDT)andthegeometricalnonlinearityismodeledusingGreen’sstrain
tensor inconjunctionwiththevonKarmanassumptions.Thedifferentialquadraturemethod(DQM)as
an accurate,simpleandcomputationallyefficientnumericaltoolisadoptedtodiscretizethegoverning
equationsandtherelatedboundaryconditions.Adirectiterativemethodisemployedtoobtainthe
criticaltemperature(bifurcationpoint)aswellasthenonlinearequilibriumpath(thepostbuckling
behavior)ofsymmetricallylaminatedbeams.Theapplicability,rapidrateofconvergenceandhigh
accuracy ofthemethodareestablishedviadifferentexamplesandbycomparingtheresultswiththose
of existinginliterature.Then,theeffectsoftemperaturedependenceofthematerialproperties,
boundaryconditions,length-to-thicknessratios,numberoflayersandplyangleonthethermal
bucklingandpostbucklingcharacteristicofsymmetricallylaminatedbeamsareinvestigated.

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