Buckling of composite plates in hygrothermal
conditions

Abstract

This paper deals with the analysis of buckling effects of composites in an hygrothermal environment. It is found from the analysis of various researchers world over that the effect of temperature and moisture which the composite materials are generally subjected to in case of space crafts and all have a considerable effect on the critical load carrying capacity of the composite plates which decreases linearly with uniform increase in moisture content and nonlinearly with increase in temperature. The objective is to check the consistency of above results using different set of material properties of composites and further it within the scope of available resources.