Research Article

Analysis of Sandwich Plates by Generalized Differential Quadrature Method

Table 4

Square laminated plate under uniform load for .

Method

15 HSDT [47] 110.43 66.62 51.97 3.465 3.035 2.691
FSDT [47] 90.85 70.04 56.03 3.753 3.091 2.764
CLT 81.768 69.135 55.308 3.687 4.2825 3.8287
Ferreira and Barbosa [48] 121.821 65.650 47.09 3.140 3.466 3.466
Ferreira ( ) [21] 121.184 63.214 50.571 3.371 3.466 3.099
Exact [46] 121.72 66.787 48.299 3.238 3.9638 3.5768
Third-order [44] ( ) 113.5941 66.3646 49.8957 3.3264 2.1686 1.5578
Third-order [44] ( ) 114.3874 66.7830 50.2175 3.3478 2.6115 1.9271
Third-order [44] ( ) 114.6442 66.9196 50.3230 3.3549 3.0213 2.2750
Present ( grid) 120.5292 65.8690 48.2620 3.2175 3.6285 3.3561
Present ( grid) 121.2654 66.3110 48.1025 3.2068 3.8616 2.6168
Present ( grid) 121.3247 66.3973 48.0221 3.2015 3.9001 2.4901
Present ( grid) 121.3340 66.4233 47.9984 3.1999 3.9063 2.4731