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The dynamic stability problem is solved for rectangular plates that are laminated antisymmetrically about their middle plane and compressed by time-dependent deterministic or stochastic membrane forces. Moderately large deflection equations taking into account a coupling of in-plane and transverse motions are used. The asymptotic stability and almost-sure asymptotic stability criteria involving a damping coefficient and loading parameters are derived using Liapunov’s direct method. A relation between the stability of nonlinear equations and linearized ones is analyzed. An influence on the number of orthotropic layers, material properties for different classes of parametric excitation on stability domains is shown.

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A theoretical investigation of dynamic stability for linear elastic structures due to non-uniform, time and space-dependent stochastic temperature fields is presented. The study is based on the reformulation of stochastic stability problems as a stability of Itoˆ type equations in some appropriate Hilbert space and is adopted for stability problems of structures with time and space-dependent stochastic coefficients. Uniform stochastic stability criteria of the structure equilibrium are derived using the Liapunov direct method. The energy-like functional and the generalized ltoˆ lemma are used to derive the sufficient stability conditions of the equilibrium state. A symmetrically laminated crossply plate subjected to the wide-band Gaussian temperature distribution and a laminated beam subjected to local short-time heatings are analysed in detail.