Multilayered anisotropic plate models with continuous interlaminar stresses

In a recent paper, the author has developed the equations governing the elastodynamic behavior of moderately thick multilayered anisotropic plates by making use of a displacement field which allows a non-linear variation of the in-plane displacements through the laminate thickness and fulfils a priori the static and geometric continuity conditions. In the present paper, the author specializes those results by developing a third-order shear deformation plate model with continuous interlaminar stresses. To show the accuracy and reliability of the proposed approach, closed-form solutions are given and compared with results from three-dimensional elasticity and other approximate bidimensional plate models with and without continuous interlaminar stresses. Based on the numerical investigation conducted, the proposed approach appears to work very well.