V. Balamurugan et al., NONLINEAR DYNAMIC INSTABILITY OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES USING FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD, Computers & structures, 60(1), 1996, pp. 125-130
investigation is carried out on the dynamic instability of anisotropic
laminated composite plates considering geometric nonlinearity. The ma
thematical model is formulated using C degrees shear flexible, field c
onsistent, QUAD-9 plate elements. The nonlinear governing equations ar
e solved using the direct iteration technique. The effect of a large a
mplitude on the dynamic instability is studied for a simply-supported
laminated composite plate. Detailed numerical results are presented fo
r various parameters, namely, ply-angle, number of layers and thicknes
s of plates. Copyright (C) 1996 Elsevier Science Ltd