The postbuckling and delamination growth for delaminated piezoelectric
elastoplastic laminated beams under hygrothermal conditions are investigated.
By considering hygrothermal environments, transverse shear deformation,
geometrical nonlinearity and piezoelectric effect, the incremental nonlinear
equilibrium equations of the piezoelectric elastoplastic laminated beams
with delamination are obtained. The finite difference method and iterative
method are adopted to solve the equations. Based on these, the delamination
growth for the piezoelectric elastoplastic laminated beams is studied using
J-integral theory. In the numerical examples, the effects of hygrothermal
environments, transverse shear deformation, geometrical nonlinearity and
piezoelectricity on the postbuckling behavior and delamination growth for the
delaminated piezoelectric elastoplastic laminated beams are discussed in
detail.
State Key Lab of Advanced Design and
Manufacturing for Vehicle Body
College of Mechanical and Vehicle Engineering
Hunan University
Changsha, 410082
China