Viscoelastic analysis of creep response for uniaxially-compressed laminates with initial deflection including the effect of physical aging (Q1282796)

We examine the viscoelastic behavior of simply-supported, cross-ply and angle-ply laminated plates with a physical aging phenomenon. The laminates considered are under uniaxial in-plane compression and have various amplitudes of initial imperfection, The analysis is based on a geometrically nonlinear viscoelastic formulation. An effective time theory is employed to construct the stress-strain relations. By assuming that every component of relaxation moduli in each lamina has the same aging shift rate, the analysis is conducted on the effective time scale. The stress function is obtained by solving the compatibility equation by the use of the Laplace transform and a numerical integration scheme. Deflection is calculated from the moment equation by the Galerkin method in conjunction with the numerical integration. Numerical results are presented for deflection history and edge shortening for the glass reinforced vinyl ester laminates.