Differential quadrature large amplitude free vibration analysis of laminated skew plates based on FSDT

Using a differential quadrature (DQ) method, large amplitude free vibration analysis of laminated composite skew thin plates is presented The governing equations are based on the thin plate theory (TPT) and the geometrical nonlinearity is modeled using Green's strain in conjunction with von Karman assumptions To cause the impact due to nonlinear terms more significant, in-plane immovable simply supported, clamped and different combinations of them are considered The effects of different parameters on the convergence and accuracy of the method are studied The resulted solutions are compared to those from other numerical methods to show the accuracy of the method Some new results for laminated composite skew plates with different mixed boundary conditions are presented and are compared with those obtained using the first order shear deformation theory based DQ (FSDT-DQ) method Excellent agreements exist between the solutions of the two approaches but with much lower computational efforts of the present DQ methodology with respect to FSDT-DQ method

A differential quadrature nonlinear free vibration analysis of laminated composite skew thin plates

Large-amplitude vibration of an initially imperfect moderately thick plate

Shear and rotatory inertia effects on large amplitude vibration of skew plates

Non-linear flexural vibrations of anisotropic skew plates

The governing equations for large amplitude flexural vibrations of orthotropic skew plates are obtained from the corresponding static equations derived in this paper. Making use of an approximation originally due to Berger, corresponding simplified equations are also derived. Considering the large amplitude free flexural vibration of orthotropic skew plates clamped along all the edges, it is shown that the Berger approximation leads to results good enough for engineering purposes. Amplitude vs period curves are presented for different aspect ratios and skew angles of the plate under two in-plane edge conditions. It is observed that the amplitude vs period behaviour is of the hardening type, i.e. period decreases with increasing amplitude.

K.A.V. Pandalai

Papers

Nonlinear Vibration of Elastic Skew Plates Exhibiting Rectilinear Orthotropy