Development of a unified design buckling curve for fibre reinforced polymer plates subjected to in-plane uniaxial and uniform compression

Presented are 24 non-dimensional buckling curves to estimate the strengths of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) square plates having four simply supported edges and subjected to in-plane uniaxial and uniform in-plane compression. The curves are constructed by the authors from a parametric numerical ana...

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Veröffentlicht in:Thin-walled structures Jg. 183; S. 110346
Hauptverfasser: Olsson, Erik, Mottram, J. Toby, Al-Emrani, Mohammad, Haghani, Reza
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2023
Schlagworte:
Buckling
Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP)
Finite element analysis
In-plane compression
Plate
Post-buckling
Post-buckling
Fibre reinforced polymer (FRP)
Finite element analysis
Buckling
In-plane compression
Plate
ISSN:0263-8231
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Zusammenfassung:Presented are 24 non-dimensional buckling curves to estimate the strengths of Fibre-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) square plates having four simply supported edges and subjected to in-plane uniaxial and uniform in-plane compression. The curves are constructed by the authors from a parametric numerical analysis using ABAQUS® software with changing variables for: material properties; initial geometrical imperfections; laminate lay-ups; and plate thicknesses. These strength curves express relationships for the buckling reduction factor with plate slenderness, and account for post-buckling strength. We observe that regardless of the laminate lay-up (except for purely unidirectional), the choice of FRP material and the magnitude of the initial geometrical imperfection the predicted buckling reduction factors display a meaningful correlation with plate slenderness. Presented is a proposed unified buckling design curve, defined as the lower bound to 18 of the 24 ABAQUS®-generated buckling curves. This new curve is benchmarked by the authors against experimental test results extracted from the literature and it is found that there is a reasonable agreement. The authors recommend that the proposed buckling design curve has the potential to be introduced into structural design standards as a procedure to design the buckling strengths of FRP plates.
ISSN:0263-8231
DOI:10.1016/j.tws.2022.110346