| Abstract: | Laminated nonthin shells made of nonlinearly elastic fiber composites are considered. The composite material is assumed to
be transversely isotropic in planes perpendicular to reinforcement. The asymptotic method and the condition of material stability
are applied to analyze the structure of constitutive relations. To introduce a small parameter, the high stiffness in the
reinforcement direction of the fiber composite is used. This allows us to obtain simplified constitutive relations containing
functions with one or two arguments instead of five as in the initial general case.
Kazan State Architectural Building Academy, Tatarstan, Russia. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 35,
No. 5, pp. 615–628, September–October, 1999. |
