Stochastic Modal Damping Analysis of Stiffened Laminated Composite Plate

Sourav Chandra, Kheirollah Sepahvand, Vasant Matsagar, Steffen Marburg

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Abstract

Laminate composite plates have several significant applications in aerospace and automobile industries due to their high strength-to-weight ratio, thermal stability, etc. However, thin laminated composite plate has a tendency of buckling when subjected to some adverse loading conditions. The addition of stiffener can avoid the buckling tendency of the thin laminated composite plate. The effect of stiffener on natural frequency and random modal damping are studied herein. The effect of uncertainty in modal damping is accounted while analyzing the composite plate to evaluate the uncertainty in damped dynamic response of the stiffened composite plate. The modal damping of the composite is determined using visco-elastic damping (VED) model. The randomness in the modal damping is propagated from uncertainty in loss factor of the lamina, and stochastic finite element method (SFEM) based on generalized polynomial chaos (gPC) is applied to evaluate the uncertainty in the modal damping of the stiffened laminated composite plate. First-order shear deformation theory (FSDT), including rotary inertia, is adapted to develop collocation-based stochastic finite element formulation of the composite plate with stiffener. Addition of the stiffener increases the frequency of the composite structure. Uncertainty in the modal damping due to the varying layers of the plates and stiffener directions have been investigated.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationRecent Advances in Computational Mechanics and Simulations - Volume-I
Subtitle of host publicationMaterials to Structures
EditorsSandip Kumar Saha, Mousumi Mukherjee
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages635-650
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9789811581373
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021
Event7th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, 2019 - Mandi, India
Duration: 11 Dec 201913 Dec 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Civil Engineering
Volume103
ISSN (Print)2366-2557
ISSN (Electronic)2366-2565

Conference

Conference7th International Congress on Computational Mechanics and Simulation, 2019
Country/TerritoryIndia
CityMandi
Period11/12/1913/12/19

Keywords

  • Generalized polynomial chaos (gPC)
  • Modal damping
  • Stiffened laminated composite plate
  • Visco-elastic damping (VED)

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