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

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