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Stress distribution due to inclined line loads in fibrous polymer composites

S. Gururaja¹, M. Ramulu²

1 Graduate Student, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 98195, USA
2 Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 98195, USA

The International Conference on Computational & Experimental Engineering and Sciences 2007, 4(2), 73-80. https://doi.org/10.3970/icces.2007.004.073

Abstract

Uni-Directional Fiber-Reinforced Plastic (UD-FRP) laminates have been modeled as a quasi-homogeneous monoclinic half-space subjected to an inclined load at the surface. Complete closed form stress-fields derived previously [1] based on Lekhtinskii's formulation [2] in conjunction with the principle of analytical continuation [3] were used to study the stress-response in relation to a few parameters identified, namely, fiber-orientation, load inclination angle and spatial coordinates with respect to line load application position in the half-space domain.

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