ABSTRACT
According to the reciprocal theorem of Betti and Raleigh, the boundary integral equations for the bending-stretching coupling analysis of composite laminates are derived in this paper. To make the boundary integral equations work for the programming of boundary element codes, several fundamental solutions such as those for the infinite laminates, the laminates with holes/cracks, are presented in this paper. With the boundary integral equations and the explicit fundamental solutions, the boundary element formulation for the bending-stretching coupling analysis of composite laminates can then be established.
