A stress analysis of a plane infinitely layered medium subjected to surface loadings is performed using Airy stress functions, integral transforms, and a revised transfer matrix approach. Proper boundary conditions at infinity are for the first time established, which reduces the problem size by one half. Methods and approximations are also presented to enable numerical treatment and to overcome difficulties inherent to such formulations. [S0021-8936(00)01103-X]

Issue Section:
Brief Notes
Keywords:
stress analysis, transforms, transfer function matrices, laminates, structural engineering, elasticity
Topics:
Boundary-value problems, Fourier transforms, Stress, Stress analysis (Engineering), Laminates
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