The postbuckling performance of sandwich and composite shells with in-plane shear nonlinearity and unsymmetric layers (Q2564599)

We use the natural approach to construct a curved triangular shell element NATCOP for analysis of sandwich and composite shells. The sandwich and composite shells can be either symmetric or unsymmetric, and the in-plane shear relation can be linear or nonlinear. The element NATCOP is used to analyse the postbuckling behaviors of some typical sandwich and composite plates and shells, in order to show the influence of the in-plane shear nonlinearity and unsymmetric layers on the buckling and postbuckling of the multilayered shells.