Dynamic and Buckling Analysis of the Laminated Composite Curved Plate Frame Structures

Abstract

This study presents the dynamic and buckling analysis of the laminated composite thin arch plate frame structures employing Classical Plate Theory with Finite Element Analysis. For this purpose, The effects of the radius of curvature, aspect ratio, and stacking order of such structures on the first ten natural frequencies, mode shapes, critical buckling load, and the first unstable regions are investigated. Besides, the two-bay curved plate frame structure is investigated. In order to perform dynamic and buckling analyses, a computer code is developed and executed via MATLAB. The results are compared and validated with those of ANSYS. It is concluded that the aspect ratio or the stacking order affects the dynamic characteristics of the curved plate frame structure considerably while the radius of curvature relatively has less impact on such dynamic properties of the structure.