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Structural Engineering and Mechanics
  Volume 52, Number 1, October10 2014 , pages 89-95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2014.52.1.089
 


Buckling of an elastic plate due to surface-attached thin films with intrinsic stresses
J. Zhu, J.S. Yang and C.Q. Ru

 
Abstract
    We analyze the buckling of a thin elastic plate due to intrinsic stresses in thin films attached to the surfaces of the plate. In the case of cylindrical buckling, it is shown that for a plate with clamped edges compressive intrinsic film stresses can cause flexural buckling of the plate, while tensile intrinsic film stresses cannot. For a plate with free edges, film intrinsic stresses, compressive or tensile, cannot cause buckling.
 
Key Words
    cylindrical buckling; elastic plate; thin film; intrinsic stress
 
Address
J. Zhu: College of Mechanical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310032, China
J.S. Yang: Department of Engineering Mechanics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 68588-0526, USA
C.Q. Ru: Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
 

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