William L. Ko

• Application of finite elastic theory to the behavior of rubber-like materials
• Buckling behavior of René 41 tubular panels for a hypersonic aircraft wing
• Combined-load buckling behavior of metal-matrix composite sandwich panels under different thermal environments
• Delamination stresses in semicircular laminated composite bars
• Elastic constants for superplastically formed/diffusion bonded corrugated sandwich core
• Extension of Ko straight-beam displacement theory to deformed shape predictions of slender curved structures
• Finite-element reentry heat-transfer analysis of space shuttle orbiter
• First- and second-order displacement transfer functions for structural shape calculations using analytically predicted surface strains
• Improved displacement transfer functions for structure deformed shape predictions using discretely distributed surface strains
• Mechanical- and thermal-buckling behavior of rectangular plates with different central cutouts
• Methods for in-flight wing shape predictions of highly flexible unmanned aerial vehicles
• Open-mode debonding analysis of curved sandwich panels subjected to heating and cryogenic cooling on opposite faces