Random material property and behavior of composite plates
In this study, the random material parameter, especially the Poisson's ratio is taken into account in the stochastic finite element formulation for composite laminate plate. Since the parameter is embedded into the constitutive relation in the fraction form, direct consideration of the parameter in the formulation is not ease. In order to overcome this difficulty, we applied the Taylor's expansion to the fraction form to obtain a series expansion in ascending order of stochastic field function. With this, the formulation that considers the randomness in the Poisson's ratio is established. The adequacy of the proposed formulation is observed by means of Monte Carlo simulation.