Buckling and postbuckling behavior of antisymmetrically angle-ply laminated composite plates

The buckling and postbuckling behaviors of perfect and imperfect antisymmetrically angle-ply laminated composite plates under uniaxial compression have been studied by perturbation technique which takes deflection as its perturbation parameter.In this paper, the effects of in-plane boundary conditions, angles, total number of layers and initial geometric imperfection on the postbuckling behavior of laminated plates have been discussed.