Continual approximations of displacements in thick layered plates upon decomposition of thermomechanical loads into bilateral symmetric and antisymmetric components

Continual models of deformation of thick layered plates, where the general order of resolving equations does not depend on the number of layers, are constructed with account of the specific character of the unflexural and flexural deformation caused by the symmetric and antisymmetric components of bilateral loads and temperature. Account of the load decomposition during the process of refining a certain reasonable initial solution, consisting in the analytical iterative integration, makes it possible to obtain rather precise continual approximations of stresses and displacements over the transverse coordinate and thus to revise the known continual models.Ukrainian State Academy of Water Management, Rovno, the Ukraine. Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 35, No. 6, pp. 743–756, November–December, 1999.