Bending Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates with Arbitrary Boundary Conditions

Subject Areas : Engineering

A.M Naserian Nik ¹ (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)
M Tahani ² (Department of Mechanical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)

Received: 2008-12-11 Accepted : 2009-02-10 Published : 2009-04-30

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