Influence of the orientation of the isotropy axis on the stability of transversely isotropic semibounded laminates.

The surface-buckling problem for elastic transversely isotropic laminates is solved using the three-dimensional linearized theory of stability with the assumption of small prebuckling strains. The influence of the orientation of the isotropy axis on the critical parameters of the problem and the equilibrium state of the material is studied analytically and numerically [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]