Stress wave propagation in orthotropic laminated thick-walled spherical shells

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Title: Stress wave propagation in orthotropic laminated thick-walled spherical shells
Author(s): Guillow, Stephen R.; Lu, Guoxing; Wang, Xi
Abstract: This paper presents an elastodynamic solution for stress wave propagation in an orthotropic laminated spherical shells with arbitrary thickness. The elastodynamic equation for each separate orthotropic spherical shell is solved by means of finite Hankel transforms and Laplace transforms. Then by using the interface continuity conditions between layers and the boundary conditions at the internal and external surfaces of the laminated shells we determine the unknown constants involved. Thus an exact solution for stress wave propagation in orthotropic laminated spherical shells subjected to arbitrary radial dynamic load is obtained.
Publication type: Journal article
Research centre: Swinburne University of Technology. School of Engineering and Science
Source: International journal of solids and structures, Vol. 39, no. 15 (2002), p. 4027-4037
Publication year: 2002
Keyword(s): Composite laminated structures; Elastodynamics stress; Stress wave propogation
Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science
Format: p. 4027-4037
ISSN: 0020-7683
Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/doi:10.1016/S0020-7683(02)00264-0
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