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First-Ply Failure Behavior of Laminated Composite Skew Plates of Various Edge Conditions

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Applications of skew plates in the practical civil engineering are well-established. A look into the papers about the failure of laminated composite structural elements revealed that composite skew plates have not been studied for failure in detail. The first-ply failure load and frequency reduction due to such a failure are reported considering practical parametric variations of composite skew plates. Different well-established failure criteria, including the most recent Puck failure criterion, are used to investigate the first-ply failure response by the finite-element method. The results obtained are postprocessed to formulate specific recommendations regarding the relative behavior of different skew plate combinations in terms of the first-ply failure.

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Russian translation published in Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 57, No. 5, pp. 989-1012, September-October, 2021. Russian DOI: 10.22364/mkm.57.5.13.

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Chatterjee, D., Ghosh, A. & Chakravorty, D. First-Ply Failure Behavior of Laminated Composite Skew Plates of Various Edge Conditions. Mech Compos Mater 57, 699–716 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11029-021-09989-4

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