Hygro-thermo-mechanical bending of laminated composite plates using an innovative computational four variable refined quasi-3D HSDT model

The current investigation presents hygro-thermo-mechanical analysis of simply supported anti-symmetric composite plates by using an original computational four unknown's quasi-3D inverse tangent hyperbolic theory. The developed formulations take into account the thickness stretching effect and contain indeterminate integral variables to reduce the number of unknowns. The present model ensures the transverse shear stresses nullity at the top and the bottom surfaces without using any shear correction factor. The governing equations are determined with the help of virtual work principle. The analytical solution of the hygro-thermo-mechanical analysis is derived via Navier's procedure. The accuracy and efficiency of current model is checked by comparing the results with others models found in the literature. Several numerical results are presented in graphs form to show the effects of the aspect, geometry and modulus ratio on the stress and transverse displacement of the simply supported anti-symmetric composite plates.