Author Type

Graduate Student

Date of Award

1989

Document Type

Thesis

Publication Status

Version of Record

Submission Date

October 2026

Thesis/Dissertation Advisor [Chair]

Villanueva, Jose

Abstract

This study deals with the effects of a hygrothermal environment on the buckling of a wide beam-column composed of a layer of metal and a layer of fiber reinforced composite material. The elastica theory is used to derive the nonlinear differential equation describing the buckling of a bilayered beam-column exposed to a hygrothermal environment. Parametric studies are conducted using the solutions of the nonlinear and linearized differential equations governing the buckling of a bilayered beam-column with simply supported end conditions. Numerical results indicate that inclusion of the hygrothermal effects leads to considerable reductions in the load carrying capacity of a simple beam-column.

Extent

56 p.

Comments

College of Engineering and Computer Science|FAU Electronic Theses and Dissertations Collection|Thesis (M.S.E.)--Florida Atlantic University, 1989.|College of Engineering and Computer Science

Identifier

FADT14544

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