VIBRATION OF THICK RECTANGULAR-PLATES OF BIMODULUS COMPOSITE-MATERIAL Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • A finite-element analysis is carried out for small-amplitude free vibration of laminated, anisotropic, rectangular plates having arbitrary boundary conditions, finite thickness shear moduli, rotatory inertia, and bimodulus action (different elastic properties depending upon whether the fiber-direction strain is tensile or compressive). The element has five degrees of freedom, three displacements and two slope functions, per node. An exact closed-form solution is also presented for the special case of freely supported single-layer orthotropic and two-layer, cross-ply plates. This solution provides a benchmark to evaluate the validity of the finite-element analysis. Both solutions are compared with numerical results existing in the literature for special cases (all for ordinary, not bimodulus, materials), and good agreement is obtained.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF APPLIED MECHANICS-TRANSACTIONS OF THE ASME

author list (cited authors)

  • BERT, C. W., REDDY, J. N., CHAO, W. C., & REDDY, V. S.

citation count

  • 54

complete list of authors

  • BERT, CW||REDDY, JN||CHAO, WC||REDDY, VS

publication date

  • June 1981