Vibration design of laminated fibrous composite plates with local anisotropy induced by short fibers and curvilinear fibers

Free Vibration Analysis of Variable Stiffness Composite Laminates with Flat and Folded Shapes

In this article, free vibration analysis of variable stiffness composite laminate (VSCL) plates with flat and folded shapes is studied. In order to consider the concept of variable stiffness, in each layer of these composite laminated plates, the curvilinear fibers are used instead of straight fibers. The analysis is based on a semi-analytical finite strip method which follows classical laminat...

Buckling and vibration analysis of angle -ply symmetric laminated composite plates with fully elastic boundaries

The main focus of this paper is on efficiency analysis of two kinds of approximating functions (characteristic orthogonal polynomials and characteristic beam functions) that have been applied in the Rayleigh-Ritz method to determine the non-dimensional buckling and frequency parameters of an angle ply symmetric laminated composite plate with fully elastic boundaries. It has been observed that o...

The Effect of Anisotropy on Free Vibration of Rectangular Composite Plates with Patch Mass

In this paper, the effect of anisotropy on the free vibration of laminated rectangular plate supporting a localized patch mass is investigated. The two variable refined plate theory is applied to define the third order displacement field of a composite rectangular plate. The plate is considered to have simply supported boundaries. The equations of motion for rectangular plate are obtained by ca...

Multi-Objective Optimization of Curvilinear Fiber Shapes for Laminated Composite Plates by Using NSGA-II

A multi-objective optimization approach for fibrous composite plates with curvilinear fibers is proposed in the present study. The non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm (NSGA-II) is used to obtain Pareto-optimum solutions, where the presence of a trade-off relation between the mechanical performance and curvatures of reinforcing fibers has been established. The in-plane strength around a circ...

Enhancement of composite performance by hollow polyester fibers