Contact of orthotropic laminates with a rigid spherical indentor

Three dimensional contact problems of square orthotropic laminates indented by a rigid spherical indenter are solved. Simplified problems of indentations of beam and isotropic square plate are studied first to develop an efficient numerical technique and to gather the knowledge of the shape of the c...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Chen, Chun-Fu
Other Authors: Engineering Mechanics
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: Virginia Tech 2014
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10919/38883
http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-07282008-134520/