Thermal Buckling of Laminate Composite Spheroidal Spherical Shell

Abstract

Thermal buckling analysis of multi-layered composite spheroidal spherical shells with clamped boundary condition under uniform distribution thermal load is investigated using the finite element method to produce the theoretical modeling. The results obtained are compared with the know data in the literature for composite shells. The effect of important parameter spherical angle, fiber orientation, number of layers of composite shell and radius to thickness ratio are taken in to consideration on the structure stability.