S. Pradyumna

Thermo-mechanical stress analysis of variable stiffness composite sandwich plates with auxetic honeycomb core using a higher-order zig-zag theory

The in-plane and transverse shear stresses in sandwich plates under thermo-mechanical loads are investigated here using a C 0 continuous nine-node plate bending element with eleven degrees of freedom per node. The finite element formulation is based on a higher-order zig-zag theo...