Hygrothermal Analysis of Laminated Composite Plates by Using Efficient Higher Order Shear Deformation Theory

Subject Areas : Engineering

S.K  Singh ¹ (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology)
A  Chakrabarti ² (Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology)

Received: 2011-03-16 Accepted : 2011-04-30 Published : 2011-03-30

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