A semianalytical solution is presented for bending of moderately thick fully clamped
laminated doubly curved panels using the extended Kantorovich method (EKM). The
panel is subjected to uniform and nonuniform distributed loading and cut from a
rectangular platform. Based on the first-order shear deformation theory,
five highly coupled second-order partial differential equations in terms of
displacement components are derived. Assuming separable functions for panel
displacements together with the EKM converts the governing equations into double
sets of ordinary differential equations with constant coefficients in terms of
and
. The
resulting ODE systems are then solved iteratively until a level of prescribed
convergence is achieved. Closed-form solutions can be presented for ODE systems in
each iteration. Efficiency and rapid convergence of the solution technique are
examined using several examples. Predictions of both deflection and stress
resultants show very good agreement with other available results in the
literature. It is also shown that the same formulation and solution method can be
used to obtain results for spherical and cylindrical panels and rectangular
plates.