Abstract
Laminated composite plates can offer great stiffness and high strength to weight ratio hence are widely used in various fields of industry such as aerospace, aviation, civil and mechanical engineering. Therefore studying their behaviour is of great interest. In this paper behaviour of laminated composite plates under free vibration has been investigated using ABAQUS finite element program. An 8-ply cantilever graphite/epoxy plate is simulated under free vibration using shell elements. The results are compared with experimental results and have shown good agreement. Then the model is used to study the effect of different ply orientations, boundary conditions and thickness to width ratios on the vibration behaviour of composite plates.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 23rd Conference on Computational Mechanics |
| Subtitle of host publication | ACME-UK 2015 |
| Editors | Antonio Gil, Rubén Sevilla |
| Place of Publication | Swansea |
| Publisher | Swansea University |
| Pages | 99-102 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | ISBN 978-0-9567462-4-5 |
| Publication status | Published - Apr 2015 |