On the thermomechanical behavior of a round flexible orthotropic plate

The critical temeprature of an orthotropic round plate at which it loses stability is determined, and its deflection is studied on the basis of flexible plate thermoelasticity. The plate is under conditions of heat exchange with the environment. The approximate method is based on the representation of stresses and displacements in the form of algebraic polynomials. S. P. Timoshenko Institute of Mechanics, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev, Ukraine. Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika, Vol. 35, No. 4, pp. 95–100, April, 1999.