The Effect of Square Hole on Thermal Stresses in an Aluminum Metal-Matrix Cross-Ply Laminated Composites

Authors : Faruk ŞEN

Pages : 163-171

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Publication Date : 2007-06-01

Article Type : Research Paper

Abstract :In this study, the effect of a square hole on thermal stresses in a cross ply laminated composite plates reinforced steel fiber-aluminum metal-matrix was examined. Laminated composite plates were composed of four orthotropic layers. The stacking sequences of composite were also selected as symmetric insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0/90);s and antisymmetric insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(0/90);2 manners. Uniform temperature distribution was selected as thermal loading. Finite element method insert ignore into journalissuearticles values(FEM); was performed to calculate the magnitude of the thermal stresses, ANSYS software was used during the solution. The width square laminated plate-to-the square hole dimension, a/b, was chosen as 5. The results were given in graphical forms.
Keywords : Thermal stresses, finite element method, laminated composites

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