Design and analysis of composite skew plate bending

This paper generalizes and extends a numerical formulation within the method to simulate the behaviour of skew composite plate bending. It is of pivotal importance to note that despite the spread use of skew plates, the published literature shows an important lack of scientific works regarding these particular structures. The main goal of the development described in this work is to provide a numerical tool that could be used to obtain approximate solutions for bending problem of skew composite plates subjected to different loading and various support conditions. Both homogeneous and fibre-based materials are investigated. The skew plate behaviour depend on several parameters namely, the skew angle, boundary conditions and constitutive material. Dependence on these parameters is investigated trough numerical results