This Article Full Text (OnlineFirst PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Lal, A. Articles by Singh, B N Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Stochastic Free Vibration of Laminated Composite Plates in Thermal Environments

SVNIT

^* To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: achchhelal{at}med.svnit.ac.in.

	Abstract

This work deals with the stochastic free vibration of laminated composite plates subjected to a thermal loading with general boundary conditions by taking into account the randomness in lamina material properties and thermal expansion coefficients. The system equations have been derived based on higher order shear deformation theory incorporating rotary inertia effects. A C ⁰ finite element method is used for treating the random eigenvalue problem. A mean centered first-order perturbation technique is adopted to examine the stochastic characteristics of thermal free vibration response. The results have been compared with those available in the literature and independent Monte Carlo simulation.

First published on June 19, 2009
Journal of Thermoplastic Composite Materials 2009, doi:10.1177/0892705709103399


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?