Vibration analysis of a composite plate with delamination

Abstract EN

The use of composite materials has vastly increased in recent years.

Great interest is therefore developed in the damage detection of composites using non-destructive test methods.

Several approaches have been applied to obtain information about the existence and location of the faults.

This paper used the vibration response of a composite plate to detect and localize delamination defect based on the modal analysis.

Experiments are conducted to validate the developed model.

A two-dimensional finite element model for multi-layered composites with internal delamination is established.

FEM program are built for plates under different boundary conditions.

Natural frequencies and modal displacements of the intact and damaged multi-layer composite plates are subsequently analyzed for various samples.

Also, composite plates are made for vibration testing and analysis and to comparison of the numerical and experimental results, shows good agreement between them.