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characteristics of delaminated composite plates subjected to periodic in-plane plane load. load A first order shear deformation theory based on finite element mode model (FEM) is developed for studying the instability region of mid plane delaminated composite plate. A detailed parametric investigation is carried out to o study the influence of delamination area, number of layers, degree of orthotropy, aspect ratio and static in plane load on the dynamic stability characteristics of delaminated cross ply plates. The results of vibration and buckling of delaminated composi composite te plates are compared with previous numerical studies in literature and author s experimental investigations. The boundaries of instability regions are obtained by using the Bolotins method and are represented in the non dimensional load amplitude amplitude-excitation tion frequency plane. It is observed that the natural frequencies and the critical buckling load of the plates decrease with increase in delamination size. The increase ncrease in delamination size also causes dynamic instability regions to be shifted to lower excitation frequencies.