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Article history: We combine the isogeometric analysis, the level set and a simple first-order shear deformation theory (S-
Received 31 January 2015 FSDT) to form a new effective and accurate approach for simulating free vibration and buckling problems
Received in revised form of laminated composite plates with cutouts. The problem domain is discretized using non-uniform ra-
4 December 2015
tional B-spline (NURBS) basis functions, which are utilized for geometry and field variables approx-
Accepted 8 December 2015
Available online 14 January 2016
imation. In S-FSDT, the shear locking effect is no longer valid and more interestingly, low computational
cost is saved because of having fewer unknowns. The trimmed NURBS surface often used in existing
Keywords: approaches, which has some disadvantages in describing the geometrical structure with internal cutouts
Isogeometric analysis due to the tensor product of the NURBS basis functions, is no longer required in the present formulation,
NURBS
and the level set method (LSM) is employed to describe the cutouts instead. More interestingly, the
First-order shear deformation theory
numerical integration in the developed method is performed only inside the physical domain. All those
Laminated composite plates
Cutouts features make the method effective in modeling cutouts with complicated shapes. Numerical examples
Level set method are presented to show the performance of the method. The results obtained are validated against re-
Free vibration ference solutions showing a good agreement and performance.
Buckling & 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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requires the so-called shear correction factors to take into account completely removed. In addition, the C1 continuity requirement of
the non-linear distribution of shear stress terms. Recently, a simple the S-FSDT is easily handled by the present formulation without
FSDT (S-FSDT) was formulated in [23,24] by partitioning the additional efforts due to the high-order continuity of NURBS basis
transverse deflection into the bending and shear components. functions. The accuracy, applicability and performance of the
Compared with the traditional FSDT, one unknown can be saved proposed approach are demonstrated through a number of re-
and the shear locking is free in the S-FSDT. However, the S-FSDT
presentative numerical examples. Numerical results for free vi-
requires C1 continuity of the generalized displacements leading to
bration and buckling of isotropic and laminated composite plates
the second-order derivative of the stiffness formulation which is
with simple to complicated cutouts subjected to in-plane stresses
awkward in conventional finite element analysis based on the C0
continuity. are analyzed, validated against the reference solutions available in
Isogeometric analysis (IGA) [25] is a new numerical method the literature.
that shares the same splines basis function for representing the The rest of this paper is structured as follows: basic equations
geometry in design and solution approximations in analysis. The for laminated composite plates are presented in Section 2. In
IGA originally devotes to a cost-effective approach that is to fill the Section 3, IGA formulation for laminated composite plates is de-
gap between geometric modeling and numerical simulation, and rived. Numerical examples with complicated shapes for the free
may eliminate the meshing difficulty. IGA is based on CAD splines vibration and buckling problems of laminated composite plates
(e.g. NURBS), and proved to be an efficient, highly accurate, robust with cutouts are presented in Section 4 to verify the accuracy and
and higher order continuity approach. The inherently desirable effectiveness of the present method. Section 5 concludes.
characteristics of IGA makes it superior to classical finite element
method in many aspects and has successfully applied to many
engineering problems, including steel–concrete beams [26],
structural problems [27–30], fluid mechanics [31], fluid–structure 2. Basic equations for laminated composite plates
interaction [32], fracture mechanics [33], contact mechanics [34],
unsaturated flow problem in porous media [35], and structural 2.1. The displacements, strains, and stresses of plates
shape optimization [36], etc.
For complex geometry like structures with cutout, the trimmed The xy-plane is the mid-plane of the plate, and the positive
NURBS surface is often used in IGA. However, many geometrical z-axis is upward from the mid-plane. In the S-FSDT, the displace-
models are still hard to be solved by using the trimmed NURBS
ment field (u, v, w ) can be expressed in terms of four unknown
surface. Shojaee et al. [37,38] artificially divided the square plate
variables as follows [23,30,43]:
with a hole of complicated shape into several NURBS patches and
then the bending strip method applied to maintain C1 continuity
between patches. However, this method is in general ineffective u (x, y , z ) = u0 (x, y) − z ∂wb (x, y)/∂x
and not straightforward to unify design and analysis. To deal with v (x, y , z ) = v0 (x, y) − z ∂wb (x, y)/∂y
the trimmed NURBS surfaces, Schmidt et al. [39] developed a local w (x, y , z ) = wb (x, y) + ws (x, y) (1)
reconstruction technique to rebuild trimmed elements with se-
parate patches, in which the geometric errors and loss of the where u0 and v0 represent the displacements at the mid-plane of a
higher-order continuity along the interior and limited to single plate in the x, and y directions respectively; the transverse dis-
trimming curves are introduced. Numerical treatment of the
placement at the mid-plane in the z direction is divided into
trimmed objects such as internal cutouts in terms of NURBS-based
bending component wb and shear component ws .
IGA owns some drawbacks primarily due to the tensor product of
Because the rotations are obtained by using the partial deri-
the NURBS basis functions. Numerical approaches like the XFEM
vatives of the bending component wb conforming discretizations
[40] and Finite Cell Method (FCM) [41,42] are associated with level
set method (LSM) to describe the geometry of the computational of the S-FSDT are inherently free from the issue of shear-locking.
domain, and the numerical integration is used only inside the By making small strain assumptions, the strain–displacement
physical domain. By this way, it is thus easy to deal with complex relations are expressed as
geometry models.
Recently, the S-FSDT theory has successfully integrated into the ⎧ ∂u0 ∂ 2w ⎫
⎪ − z 2b ⎪
IGA by the authors to the analysis of linear and geometrically non- ⎪ ∂x ∂x ⎪
linear problems of functionally graded plates [30,43]. We have ⎪ 2 ⎪
∂v0 ∂ w
shown that the new approach based on the IGA and the S-FSDT is ⎧ εx ⎫ ⎪ − z 2b ⎪
very effective and highly accurate in modeling structural problems ⎪ εy ⎪ ⎪ ∂y ∂y ⎪
⎪γ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪ 2
⎪
⎪
like plates. In order to effectively treat cutouts in plates, especially ⎨ xy ⎬ = ⎨ ∂u0 ∂v0 ∂ wb ⎬
⎪ γxz ⎪ ⎪ ∂y + − 2 z
laminated composite plates, the present works developed by the ∂x ∂x∂y ⎪
⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪
authors need further study and development. Therefore, the main γ
⎩ yz ⎭ ⎪ ∂ws ⎪
objective of our work is to perform the arisen task as we aim to ⎪ ∂x ⎪
improve the approach presented in [30,43] by integrating the LSM ⎪ ⎪
⎪ ∂ ws ⎪
to accurately simulating cutouts in complicated laminated com- ⎪
⎩ ∂y ⎪
⎭ (2)
posites plates. In other words, we develop a new numerical model
in which the S-FSDT and LSM are simultaneously integrated into
Eq. (2) can be written in matrix form:
the IGA for modeling buckling and free vibration problems of la-
minated composites plates with cutouts. In the new approach, the
εp ε0 − zκ
LSM is mainly to describe the cutouts, while numerical integration
is used only inside the physical domain. As a result the trimmed
ε= {} {
εs
=
γ } (3)
NURBS surface is no longer required to describe the geometrical
structure with cutouts. By employing the S-FSDT, the shear locking where ε p and εs represent the in-plane strain vector and the
problem often encountered in the conventional plate theories is transverse shear strain vector, respectively.
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⎧ ∂ 2w ⎫ ⎡ε ⎤ ⎡A B ⎤
⎧ ∂u0 ⎫ ⎪ b
⎪ εm = ⎢⎣ 0 ⎥⎦, D = ⎢ ⎥
⎪ ⎪ ⎪ ∂x2 ⎪ ⎧ ∂ws ⎫ κ ⎣ B Db⎦ (9)
⎪ ∂x ⎪
⎪ ∂v0 ⎪ ⎪
⎪ ∂ 2wb ⎪⎪ ⎪
⎪ ∂x ⎪⎪
ε0 = ⎨ ⎬; κ = ⎨ ⎬; γ = ⎨ ⎬ in which ρ is density; A , B , Db , and Ds are matrices of extensional
⎪ ∂y ⎪ ⎪ ∂y ⎪
2 ∂w
⎪ s⎪
⎪ stiffness, bending-extensional coupling stiffness, bending stiffness,
⎪ ∂u0 ∂v ⎪ ⎪ 2 ⎪ ⎩ ∂y ⎪⎭
⎪ + 0⎪ ⎪ 2 ∂ wb ⎪ and transverse shearing stiffness, respectively, defined as [44]:
⎩ ∂y ∂x ⎭ ⎪ ⎪
⎩ ∂x∂y ⎭ (4) h /2
(Aij , Bij , Dijb ) = ∫−h /2 Q¯ ij (1, z, z2) dz (i, j = 1, 2, 6) (10a)
The laminate is usually made of several orthotropic layers in
which the stress–strain relation for the kth orthotropic lamina
with the arbitrary fiber orientation compared with the reference h /2
axes is given by Dijs = ∫−h /2 Q¯ ij dz (i, j = 4, 5) (10b)
⎡ Q¯ Q¯ 12 Q¯ 16 0 0 ⎤ ⎧ εx ⎫(k)
(k )
⎧ σx ⎫(k) ⎢ 11 ⎥ where h is plate thickness.
⎪ σy ⎪ ⎢ Q¯ 21 Q¯ 22 Q¯ 26 0 0 ⎥ ⎪ εy ⎪ To account for the plates subjected to in-plane stresses σx0 , σy0
⎪ ⎪ ⎢ ⎥ ⎪ ⎪
⎨ τxy ⎬ 0 ⎥ ⎨ γxy ⎬
0
= ⎢ Q¯ 61 Q¯ 62 Q¯ 66 0 and τxy , the in-plane stresses virtual work should be included in
⎪ τxz ⎪ ⎪γ ⎪
⎪τ ⎪ ⎢ 0 0 0 Q¯ 55 Q¯ 54 ⎥ ⎪ xz ⎪ the model, which is the work done by the initial stresses acting on
⎩ yz ⎭ ⎢ ⎥ ⎩ γyz ⎭ the non-linear strain parts [45,46]:
⎣ 0 0 0 Q¯ 45 Q¯ 44 ⎦ (5)
⎧ 2⎫ ⎧ 1 ⎛ ∂wb ∂ws ⎞
2 ⎫
⎪ 1 ⎛ ∂w 0 ⎞ ⎪ ⎪ ⎜ ⎟
⎪
⎪ 2 ⎜⎝ ∂x ⎟⎠ ⎪ ⎪
+ ⎪
where ⎪ ⎪ ⎪
2 ⎝ ∂x ∂ x ⎠
⎪
⎪ 2 ⎪ ⎪⎪ 2 ⎪
⎪
εnl = ⎨ 1 ⎛ ∂w 0 ⎞ ⎬ = ⎨ 1 ⎛ ∂wb ∂ws ⎞ ⎬
Q¯ 11 = Q 11 cos4 θ + 2 ( Q 12 + 2Q 66 ) sin2 θ cos2 θ + Q 22 sin4 θ (6a) ⎪ 2 ⎜ ∂y ⎟ ⎪ ⎪ ⎜
2 ⎝ ∂y
+
∂y ⎠
⎟ ⎪
⎪ ⎝ ⎠ ⎪ ⎪ ⎪
⎪ ∂w ∂w ⎪ ⎪ ⎛ ∂w w ⎞ ⎛ ∂wb w ⎞⎪
⎪ 0 0 ⎪ ⎪⎜ b ∂ s ∂ s
+ ⎟⎜ + ⎟⎪
⎩ ∂x ∂y ⎭ ⎪ ⎩ ⎝ ∂x ∂x ⎠ ⎝ ∂y ∂y ⎠ ⎪⎭ (11)
(
Q¯ 12 = ( Q 11 + Q 22 − 4Q 66 ) sin2 θ cos2 θ + Q 12 sin4 θ + cos4 θ ) (6b) To the end, the virtual work of the initial stresses yields
⎧ 2 2 ⎫
⎪ ⎛ δwb δws ⎞⎟ 1 ⎛ δw δws ⎞ ⎛ ⎞
0 ⎜⎛ δwb + δws ⎟⎞ ⎜ δwb + δws ⎟ ⎪
δW = ∫Ω ⎨⎪ 21 σx0 ⎝⎜ ∂x
+
∂x ⎠
+ σ y0 ⎜ b +
2 ⎝ ∂y
⎟ + τxy
∂y ⎠ ⎝ ∂x ∂x ⎠ ⎝ ∂y
⎬ dΩ
∂y ⎠ ⎪
⎩ ⎭ (12)
Q¯ 16 = ( Q 11 − Q 12 − 2Q 66 ) sin θ cos3 θ
In the case of in-plane buckling analyses for pre-buckling
+ ( Q 12 − Q 22 + 2Q 66 ) sin3 θ cos θ (6c) σx0 τxy
0
stresses σ0 = [ ], the weak form can be expressed as
0
τxy σy0
(
+ Q 66 sin4 θ + cos4 θ ) (6f) 3.1. The NURBS basis functions
with and
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follows:
Ni, p (ξ ) Nj, q (η) wi, j
Rip, j, q (ξ , η) = n m
∑i = 1 ∑ j = 1 Ni, p (ξ ) Nj, q (η) wi, j (17)
where wi, j represents the 2D weight; Ni, p (ξ ) and Nj, q (η) are the
B-spline basis functions of order p in the ξ direction and order q in
the η direction, respectively; Nj, q (η) follows the recursive formula
shown in Eqs. (14) and (15) with knot vector k (η). The definition of
k (η) is similar to that of k (ξ ).
By using the NURBS basis functions, a NURBS surface of order p
in the ξ direction and order q in the η direction can be constructed
as follows:
n m
S (ξ , η) = ∑ ∑ Rip, j, q (ξ, η) Bi, j
i=1 j=1 (18)
with
T
u h0 = ⎡⎣ u0h v0h wbh wsh ⎤⎦ (20a)
with
⎡ RI, x 0 0 0⎤ ⎡ 0 0 RI, xx 0⎤
Fig. 2. A square plate with a circular hole. ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
Bm
I = ⎢ 0 RI, y 0 0⎥, B I = ⎢ 0 0 RI, yy 0⎥, B sI
b
⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
⎣ RI, y RI, x 0 0⎦ ⎣ 0 0 2RI, xy 0⎦
⎡ 0 0 0 RI, x ⎤
ξ − ξi ξi + p + 1 − ξ =⎢ ⎥
Ni, p (ξ ) = Ni, p − 1 (ξ ) + Ni + 1, p − 1 (ξ ) for p ≥ 1 ⎢⎣ 0 0 0 RI, y ⎥⎦
ξi + p − ξi ξi + p + 1 − ξi + 1 (15) (22)
Fig. 1 illustrates a set of one-dimensional quadratic B-spline Substituting Eqs. (19) and (21) into Eqs. (8), (12) and (13), the
basis functions for open uniform knot vector formulations of the free vibration and buckling problems are re-
k (ξ ) = {0, 0, 0, 0.2, 0.4, 0.6, 0.8, 1, 1, 1} . It can be observed that a written in the following form:
B-Spline basis function is C1 continuous inside a knot span, i.e.,
between two distinct knots, and Cp 1 continuous at a single knot.
(K + K σ
− ω2M U = 0 ) (23)
Ni, p (ξ )wi where ω is the natural frequency, Ncr is the critical buckling load, U
Ri, p(ξ ) = n
∑ j = 1 Nj, p (ξ ) wj is the eigenvector {w1, w2, ... , wNP } consisted of deflection at all
(16)
control points, K , K σ , M and K G are the global stiffness matrix,
where wi is the ith weight, and 0 < wi ≤ 1. initial stresses stiffness matrix, mass matrix and geometrical
Similarly, 2D NURBS basis functions can be constructed by stiffness matrix.
taking the tensor product of two 1D B-spline basis functions as The global stiffness matrix K is given by the following
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Table 1 Table 2
Normalized frequency parameters of clamped square plate with a circular hole for Normalized frequencies of simply supported square plate with a centre square hole.
different meshes.
Mode Present FEM Liu et al. [7] Huang et al. [48] Ali et al. [49]
Mode 9 9 15 15 21 21 27 27 33 33 Huang et al. Liu et al.
[48] [7] 1 4.9648 4.9615 4.9217 4.839 4.936
2 6.5476 6.5011 6.4810 6.435 6.502
1 6.217 6.182 6.182 6.181 6.180 6.240 6.149 3 6.5499 6.5019 6.4821 6.440 6.502
2 8.784 8.741 8.663 8.649 8.650 8.457 8.577 4 8.6613 8.6507 8.5509 8.492 8.525
3 8.784 8.741 8.663 8.649 8.650 8.462 8.634 5 8.9269 8.7976 8.8656 8.875 8.813
4 10.558 10.512 10.505 10.501 10.503 10.233 10.422 6 10.8968 10.8325 10.720 10.805 –
5 11.635 11.554 11.542 11.545 11.546 11.719 11.414 7 10.8982 10.8341 10.767 10.831 –
6 12.064 12.044 12.043 12.041 12.034 12.299 11.838 8 12.3188 12.3144 12.045 12.291 –
7 13.168 13.076 13.012 13.004 13.004 13.037 12.829 9 13.5544 13.4599 13.370 13.534 –
8 13.168 13.076 13.012 13.004 13.004 13.041 12.842 10 14.4913 14.4912 14.180 14.108 –
Table 3
Normalized frequencies of simply supported square plate with a centre square hole for different thickness ratio h/a.
⎧ m ⎫T ⎡
A B ⎤ ⎧ Bm ⎫
∫Ω ⎨⎩ Bb ⎬⎭
T
K= ⎢ ⎥ ⎨ ⎬ dΩ + ∫Ω ( Bs) D sBsdΩ
Table 4
B ⎣ B D b ⎦ ⎩ Bb ⎭ (25)
Normalized frequencies of square plate with a centre square hole for different
boundary conditions.
and the initial stresses stiffness matrix K σ is given by
Mode FCFC SCSC CCCC
Kσ = ∫Ω ( Bσ)T σ0BσdΩ (26)
IGA FEM IGA FEM IGA FEM
Fig. 5. Mode shapes 1–6 of a CCCC square plate with a central square hole.
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Table 5
Critical buckling coefficient k for a simply supported square plate with a square cutout.
Mode 99 16 16 21 21 28 28 33 33 IGA with CPT FSM [10] FSM [50] FEM [51]
Fig. 6. The first eight mode shapes of a square plate with a square cutout.
with
⎡ RI 0 0 0 ⎤ ⎡ 0 0 RI, x 0⎤
⎡h 0 ⎤ 1 ⎢ ⎥ ⎢ ⎥
m=⎢ 3
⎥, NI = ⎢ 0 RI 0 0 ⎥ , N2
I = ⎢ 0 0 RI, y 0⎥
⎣ 0 z ρ /12⎦ ⎢⎣ 0 0 RI RI ⎥⎦ ⎢⎣ ⎥
0 0 0 0⎦ (29)
G
and the geometric stiffness matrix K is
T
KG = ∫Ω ( B g) σ0B gdΩ (30)
with
⎡ 0 0 RI, x RI, x ⎤
B Ig = ⎢ ⎥
⎢⎣ 0 0 RI, y RI, y ⎥⎦ (31)
Table 7
Normalized frequencies of a CCCC square plate with complicated cutout for various orientations.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
(0°, 0°, 0°) 44.239 71.348 81.520 96.969 101.449 119.014 134.868 147.100
(15°, 15°, 15°) 45.052 71.720 81.148 96.742 101.823 119.294 133.722 143.736
(30°, 30°, 30°) 45.704 73.315 79.179 96.413 101.720 121.293 130.533 140.611
(45°, 45°, 45°) 45.965 75.993 76.171 96.262 101.674 124.967 126.013 139.724
(0°, 90°, 0°) 44.398 72.159 81.690 97.047 101.682 119.491 134.825 147.280
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Table 8
Normalized frequencies of a SCSC laminated square plate with complicated cutout for various orientations.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
(0°, 0°, 0°) 28.747 39.321 54.863 68.725 79.861 99.721 107.478 121.378
(15°, 15°, 15°) 29.901 39.805 56.119 70.061 81.686 102.139 107.527 119.660
(30°, 30°, 30°) 31.887 41.441 59.435 73.567 85.237 107.163 107.804 120.077
(45°, 45°, 45°) 33.850 43.212 63.817 77.524 89.028 106.188 114.701 122.988
(0°, 90°, 0°) 29.071 39.549 55.693 69.312 80.960 100.885 107.952 122.001
Table 9
The first four mode shapes of three-layer symmetric laminated composite square plate with complicated cutout for different boundary conditions.
Mode
B.C.
1 2 3 4
SSSS
SCSC
CCCC
derivatives of bending deflection component, thus, the constraint depicted in Fig. 2. The geometry and material parameters are:
on the rotations is imposed by fixing the transverse defection with a¼ 10 m, thickness h¼0.1 m, radius R ¼1 m, Young’s modulus
two rows of control points as described in Ref. [30]. E¼ 2.0 1011 N/m2, Poisson’s ratio ν ¼0.3, density ρ ¼8000 kg/m2.
The typical boundary conditions can be rewritten as Five different meshes with 9 9, 15 15, 21 21, 27 27 and
Simply supported boundary condition: 33 33 control points are used. Fig. 3 shows two different meshes
v0 = wb = wb, y = ws = ws, y = 0, on x − edge (39a) of 15 15 and 27 27 control points.
A normalized frequency parameter is defined by
ω˜ = [ρhω2a4 /D (1 − v 2)]1/4 with D = Eh3/12 (1 − v 2). Numerical re-
u0 = wb = wb, x = ws = ws, x = 0, on y − edge (39b)
sults of the first eight frequency parameters calculated by the
Clamped boundary condition: present method are presented in Table 1 for different meshes. The
present results are compared with the reference solutions derived
u0 = v0 = wb = wb, x = wb, y = ws = ws, x = ws, y = 0 (40)
from the meshfree conforming radial point interpolation method
(RPIM) [7] and the discrete Green function method (DGF) [48]. It
can be seen in the table that the present method offers good
4.1. Isotropic plates convergence and agreement with other approaches. The obtained
results are very interesting and one can also observe in the results
4.1.1. Free vibration analysis: a square plate with a circular hole that the developed IGA could offer acceptable natural frequencies
We consider a clamped square plate with a circular hole as even using a coarse mesh e.g., 9 9 control points.
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Table 11
Normalized frequencies of a SSSS laminated square plate with a hole of complicated
cutout for various orientations.
1 2 3 4 5 6
Table 12
Normalized frequencies ω˜ = ωa 2 (1 + ν ) ρ /E of a fully clamped isotropic square
Fig. 8. The geometry of square plate with complicated cutout (unit:m).
plate subjected to in-plane stresses.
4.1.2. Free vibration analysis: a square plate with a centre square k Method Mode
hole
1 2 3 4 5 6
Next, a simply supported square plate with a centre square hole
is considered. The geometry and its control points are shown in 5 Trapezoidal 0.2417 0.4407 0.6177 0.7338 0.7358 0.8993
Fig. 4. In the analysis, a ¼10 m, c/a ¼0.5, thickness ration h/a ¼0.01, p-element [46]
Young’s modulus E ¼2.0 1011 N/m2, Poisson’s ratio ν ¼0.3, den- Rayleigh–Ritz 0.2417 0.4407 0.6177 0.7337 0.7357 0.8992
method [53]
sity ρ ¼8000 kg/m2. The present results of normalized frequencies Rayleigh–Ritz 0.2419 0.4412 0.6193 0.7344 0.7363 0.9017
ω̃ are compared with solutions given by Liu et al. [7], Huang et al. method [45]
[48], Ali et al. [49], and the FEM (ANSYS) with a very fine mesh, FEMQ4 0.2422 0.4434 0.6221 0.7448 0.7468 0.9111
Present 0.2418 0.4408 0.6180 0.7341 0.7359 0.8999
tabulated in Table 2.
5 Trapezoidal 0.0421 0.2448 0.4142 0.5286 0.5341 0.6899
Table 3 presents the results of normalized frequencies with p-element [46]
different thickness ration h/a obtained by the present method and Rayleigh–Ritz 0.0421 0.2448 0.4141 0.5286 0.5340 0.6899
the FEM (ANSYS), and a very good agreement can be found. More method [53]
Rayleigh–Ritz 0.0421 0.2449 0.4144 0.5287 0.5341 0.6907
importantly, the numerical results also reveal that the locking can
method [45]
be avoided. Table 4 reports the results of normalized frequencies FEMQ4 0.0445 0.2489 0.4196 0.5417 0.5472 0.7033
with different boundary conditions and thickness ration h/a ¼ 100 Present 0.0422 0.2450 0.4145 0.5290 0.5342 0.6905
obtained by the present IGA method and the FEM (ANSYS). As
Table 10
Normalized frequencies of a CCCC laminated square plate with a hole of complicated cutout for various orientations.
1 2 3 4 5 6
(0°, 0°, 0°, 0°) Present 29.620 32.570 46.995 51.321 67.041 69.432
IGA with CPT 29.623 32.573 47.009 51.321 67.057 69.474
FEM 29.573 32.565 46.767 51.237 66.712 69.463
(0°, 30°, 30°, 0°) Present 31.177 34.796 48.252 56.116 70.978 71.319
IGA with CPT 31.182 34.800 48.267 56.120 71.022 71.337
FEM 31.155 34.731 48.143 56.052 70.838 71.182
(0°, 45°, 45°, 0°) Present 32.963 37.690 49.244 61.770 72.515 75.511
IGA with CPT 32.968 37.695 49.259 61.773 72.562 75.529
FEM 32.909 37.826 49.174 61.554 72.558 75.309
(0°, 60°, 60°, 0°) Present 34.948 41.273 50.026 67.271 74.237 80.013
IGA with CPT 34.955 41.280 50.044 67.271 74.287 80.032
FEM 34.731 41.265 49.862 67.056 73.933 79.779
(0°, 90°, 90°, 0°) Present 37.094 45.645 50.604 72.563 76.223 84.378
IGA with CPT 37.103 45.655 50.623 72.562 76.279 84.402
FEM 37.023 45.661 50.416 72.187 76.053 84.189
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Table 13 Table 15
Normalized frequencies of a fully clamped three-ply laminated square plate sub- Normalized frequencies of a fully clamped three-ply laminated square plate with a
jected to in-plane stresses. complicated cutout subjected to in-plane compression or tension.
1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6
3 Present 14.4107 17.1063 23.8157 34.7468 38.9377 40.4354 3 Present 17.3079 23.3413 28.7154 41.3071 42.6269 52.6315
FEMQ4 14.4677 17.2125 24.1717 35.7609 39.3510 40.8612 FEMQ4 17.1607 22.8514 28.6624 41.2440 41.7111 52.5397
2 Present 14.4967 17.2779 24.0509 35.0136 39.0129 40.5496 2 Present 17.4819 23.5807 28.9484 41.4849 42.7765 52.8423
FEMQ4 14.5534 17.3835 24.4054 36.0244 39.4256 40.9747 FEMQ4 17.3360 23.1023 28.8982 41.4202 41.8709 52.7410
1 Present 14.5820 17.4475 24.2836 35.2783 39.0879 40.6634 1 Present 17.6535 23.8164 29.1787 41.6617 42.9252 53.0507
FEMQ4 14.6383 17.5527 24.6367 36.2859 39.5000 41.0878 FEMQ4 17.5089 23.3490 29.1311 41.5950 42.0300 52.9405
0.5 Present 14.6244 17.5317 24.3991 35.4100 39.1253 40.7202 0 Present 17.8228 24.0487 29.4062 41.8375 43.0730 53.2569
FEMQ4 14.6806 17.6366 24.7516 36.4160 39.5372 41.1442 FEMQ4 17.6794 23.5919 29.3613 41.7685 42.1885 53.1380
0 Present 14.6666 17.6153 24.5141 35.5411 39.1627 40.7769 1 Present 17.9898 24.2776 29.6311 42.0122 43.2200 53.4607
FEMQ4 14.7226 17.7200 24.8659 36.5456 39.5743 41.2005 FEMQ4 17.8477 23.8310 29.5886 41.9406 42.3463 53.3336
p-Ritz 14.6655 17.6138 24.5114 35.5318 39.1572 40.7685 2 Present 18.1546 24.5032 29.8535 42.1859 43.3663 53.6621
method FEMQ4 18.0137 24.0665 29.8134 42.1113 42.5036 53.5272
[54] 3 Present 18.3174 24.7257 30.0733 42.3586 43.5117 53.8611
0.5 Present 14.7086 17.6985 24.6285 35.6717 39.2000 40.8334 FEMQ4 18.1776 24.2985 30.0355 42.2806 42.6605 53.7188
FEMQ4 14.7645 17.8030 24.9796 36.6747 39.6113 41.2567
1 Present 14.7505 17.7813 24.7423 35.8019 39.2373 40.8899
FEMQ4 14.8063 17.8855 25.0929 36.8034 39.6484 41.3128
Table 16
2 Present 14.8338 17.9456 24.9684 36.0607 39.3117 41.0025
Normalized frequencies of a fully simply supported three-ply laminated square
FEMQ4 14.8893 18.0494 25.3177 37.0593 39.7222 41.4248
plate with a complicated cutout subjected to in-plane compression or tension.
3 Present 14.9165 18.1081 25.1923 36.3177 39.3860 41.1148
FEMQ4 14.9716 18.2115 25.5405 37.3135 39.7960 41.5363
k Method Mode
1 2 3 4 5 6
Table 14
Normalized frequencies of a fully simply supported three-ply laminated square 3 Present 2.8474 6.6759 9.4576 14.3940 19.0715 25.4221
plate subjected to in-plane stresses. FEMQ4 2.7522 6.6580 9.0463 14.3671 18.6995 25.3962
2 Present 3.7474 7.1945 9.9498 14.7868 19.3603 25.6715
k Method Mode FEMQ4 3.6746 7.1771 9.5536 14.7599 18.9944 25.6554
1 Present 4.4508 7.6840 10.4174 15.1687 19.6438 25.9174
1 2 3 4 5 6 FEMQ4 4.3889 7.6669 10.0340 15.1418 19.2839 25.9104
0 Present 5.0424 8.1489 10.8634 15.5404 19.9224 26.1604
3 Present 6.1559 8.6168 15.2522 24.8151 25.6873 26.0430 FEMQ4 4.9873 8.1320 10.4911 15.5136 19.5683 26.1616
FEMQ4 6.1663 8.6536 15.4439 24.9720 26.2078 26.3151 1 Present 5.5594 8.5925 11.2904 15.9027 20.1963 26.4007
2 Present 6.3162 8.9022 15.5766 24.9156 26.0161 26.1962 FEMQ4 5.5090 8.5757 10.9279 15.8758 19.8479 26.4094
FEMQ4 6.3266 8.9388 15.7670 25.0722 26.3606 26.6412 2 Present 6.0223 9.0173 11.7005 16.2561 20.4658 26.6385
1 Present 6.4726 9.1787 15.8943 25.0158 26.3408 26.3484 FEMQ4 5.9754 9.0006 11.3466 16.2293 20.1229 26.6541
FEMQ4 6.4829 9.2152 16.0837 25.1721 26.5125 26.9634 3 Present 6.4440 9.4253 12.0955 16.6013 20.7310 26.8740
0.5 Present 6.5494 9.3139 16.0508 25.0657 26.4242 26.5017 FEMQ4 6.3998 9.4087 11.7493 16.5744 20.3935 26.8960
FEMQ4 6.5596 9.3504 16.2397 25.2219 26.5882 27.1231
0 Present 6.6253 9.4471 16.2058 25.1155 26.4998 26.6615
FEMQ4 6.6355 9.4836 16.3943 25.2716 26.6636 27.2818 Table 17
p-Ritz meth- 6.6252 9.4470 16.2051 25.1146 26.4982 26.6572 Normalized frequencies of a fully clamped three-ply laminated square plate with a
od [54] complicated cutout subjected to in-plane shear stresses.
0.5 Present 6.7003 9.5786 16.3594 25.1652 26.5751 26.8205
FEMQ4 6.7105 9.6150 16.5474 25.3212 26.7388 27.4396 k Method Mode
1 Present 6.7745 9.7082 16.5115 25.2148 26.6503 26.9785
FEMQ4 6.7847 9.7446 16.6990 25.3707 26.8138 27.5965 1 2 3 4 5 6
2 Present 6.9206 9.9624 16.8116 25.3138 26.8000 27.2917
FEMQ4 6.9307 9.9987 16.9984 25.4694 26.9632 27.9077 3 Present 17.8653 24.0595 29.4357 41.8394 43.0847 53.2447
3 Present 7.0636 10.2102 17.1064 25.4124 26.9488 27.6014 FEMQ4 17.7290 23.6073 29.3897 41.7650 42.1952 53.1221
FEMQ4 7.0736 10.2466 17.2925 25.5677 27.1118 28.2154 2 Present 17.8521 24.0563 29.4268 41.8394 43.0813 53.2491
FEMQ4 17.7136 23.6026 29.3811 41.7668 42.1935 53.1277
1 Present 17.8380 24.0527 29.4169 41.8388 43.0774 53.2532
FEMQ4 17.6970 23.5975 29.3716 41.7679 42.1913 53.1330
expected, the normalized frequency increases from FCFC, SCSC to
0 Present 17.8228 24.0487 29.4062 41.8375 43.0730 53.2569
CCCC. The first six shape modes of the clamped boundary condi- FEMQ4 17.6794 23.5919 29.3613 41.7685 42.1885 53.1380
tion are given in Fig. 5. 1 Present 17.8065 24.0441 29.3946 41.8355 43.0681 53.2603
FEMQ4 17.6607 23.5858 29.3501 41.7685 42.1851 53.1427
2 Present 17.7892 24.0392 29.3822 41.8329 43.0627 53.2633
4.1.3. Buckling analysis: a simply supported square plate with a FEMQ4 17.6409 23.5793 29.3380 41.7678 42.1813 53.1471
central square cutout 3 Present 17.7709 24.0337 29.3688 41.8297 43.0568 53.2659
The same simply supported square plate with a central square FEMQ4 17.6200 23.5723 29.3251 41.7665 42.1769 53.1511
Table 18 Table 20
Normalized frequencies of a fully simply supported three-ply laminated square Buckling loads of a CCCC plate with a complicated cutout for various orientations.
plate with a complicated cutout subjected to in-plane shear stresses.
Angle ply Method Mode
k Method Mode
1 2 3 4 5 6
1 2 3 4 5 6
(0°, 0°, 0°) Present 11.235 11.431 11.670 11.890 22.611 23.050
3 Present 5.1511 8.1299 10.8704 15.5718 19.8832 26.1843 IGA with 11.240 11.436 11.674 11.894 22.627 23.065
FEMQ4 5.1032 8.1161 10.5010 15.5453 19.5275 26.1866 CPT
2 Present 5.1184 8.1376 10.8684 15.5622 19.8970 26.1776 (15°, 15°, 15°) Present 11.048 11.179 11.786 11.946 21.208 21.519
FEMQ4 5.0682 8.1228 10.4979 15.5356 19.5418 26.1794 IGA with 11.053 11.184 11.791 11.951 21.223 21.534
1 Present 5.0822 8.1439 10.8660 15.5518 19.9100 26.1697 CPT
FEMQ4 5.0296 8.1280 10.4947 15.5250 19.5554 26.1711 (30°, 30°, 30°) Present 10.794 10.921 11.720 11.890 18.299 18.524
0 Present 5.0424 8.1490 10.8634 15.5404 19.9224 26.1604 IGA with 10.798 10.925 11.725 11.895 18.311 18.537
FEMQ4 4.9873 8.1320 10.4911 15.5136 19.5683 26.1616 CPT
1 Present 4.9987 8.1527 10.8604 15.5282 19.9341 26.1499 (45°, 45°, 45°) Present 10.509 10.605 11.546 11.693 15.638 15.808
FEMQ4 4.9410 8.1346 10.4873 15.5012 19.5805 26.1509 IGA with 10.513 10.610 11.551 11.698 15.649 15.818
2 Present 4.9511 8.1551 10.8571 15.5150 19.9450 26.1382 CPT
FEMQ4 4.8906 8.1360 10.4832 15.4880 19.5920 26.1392 (0°, 90°, 0°) Present 11.290 11.507 11.684 11.925 22.296 22.696
3 Present 4.8993 8.1562 10.8534 15.5009 19.9553 26.1252 IGA with 11.294 11.512 11.688 11.929 22.311 22.711
FEMQ4 4.8358 8.1360 10.4788 15.4739 19.6028 26.1263 CPT
Table 21
Buckling loads of a SCSC plate with a complicated cutout for various orientations.
1 2 3 4 5 6
(0°, 0°, 0°) Present 2.860 2.925 7.595 7.784 13.822 14.353
IGA with CPT 2.861 2.925 7.597 7.786 13.828 14.359
(15°, 15°, 15°) Present 2.971 3.032 7.921 8.111 13.566 14.070
IGA with CPT 2.971 3.032 7.923 8.113 13.572 14.076
(30°, 30°, 30°) Present 3.233 3.279 8.752 8.912 12.985 13.354
IGA with CPT 3.234 3.279 8.755 8.914 12.991 13.360
(45°, 45°, 45°) Present 3.476 3.497 9.682 9.760 12.340 12.506
IGA with CPT 3.476 3.497 9.684 9.763 12.345 12.512
(0°, 90°, 0°) Present 2.902 2.960 7.757 7.926 13.868 14.358
IGA with CPT 2.902 2.960 7.759 7.928 13.874 14.365
Table 22
Comparison of critical buckling load for isotropic plate under in-plane shear
loading.
The first eight buckling shape modes of this example are visua-
lized in Fig. 6.
Fig. 9. Geometry of square plate with a complicated cutout (unit:m).
Table 19
4.2.1. Free vibration analysis: a laminated composite square plate
Buckling loads of a SSSS plate with a complicated cutout for various orientations.
with a complicated cutout
Angle ply Method Mode A three-layer symmetric laminated composite square plate
with a complicated cutout is considered. The geometry of the plate
1 2 3 4 5 6
and its dimensions is the same as Fig. 7. The material and geo-
(0°, 0°, 0°) Present 1.360 2.319 3.448 5.689 8.972 12.163 metrical parameters are considered as follows: ratio of elastic
IGA with CPT 1.360 2.319 3.448 5.689 8.974 12.166 constants E1/E2 ¼2.45 and G13 ¼G12 ¼ 0.48 E2, G23 ¼0.2 E2, Pois-
(15°, 15°, 15°) Present 1.479 2.402 3.706 5.962 8.883 12.030 son’s ratio ν12 ¼0.23, mass density ρ ¼8000 kg/m3 and thickness
IGA with CPT 1.479 2.402 3.706 5.963 8.886 12.034
h¼0.06 m. The frequency is normalized by ω˜ = [ρhω2a4 /D0.1]1/2,
(30°, 30°, 30°) Present 1.715 2.563 4.221 6.506 8.506 11.412
IGA with CPT 1.715 2.563 4.221 6.507 8.508 11.416 with a ¼10 m and D0.1 = E1h3/12 (1 − v12 v21). The normalized first
(45°, 45°, 45°) Present 1.827 2.603 4.494 6.765 7.788 10.335 six frequencies of the three-ply laminated plate with SSSS
IGA with CPT 1.827 2.603 4.495 6.766 7.790 10.338 boundary conditions for various fiber orientations are presented in
(0°, 90°, 0°) Present 1.359 2.317 3.474 5.710 8.957 12.127
Table 6. The present solutions are compared with the results ob-
IGA with CPT 1.359 2.317 3.474 5.710 8.959 12.131
tained by IGA and Kirchhoff theory with eight patches [37], EFG
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1 2 3 4 5 6
(0°, 0°, 0°) þ1 Present 7.252 8.039 10.585 12.532 13.705 19.083
FEMQ4 7.342 8.119 10.628 12.742 13.949 19.490
1 Present 3.447 10.227 12.236 15.147 15.747 18.450
FEMQ4 3.451 10.192 12.433 15.361 15.881 19.067
(15°, 15°, 15°) þ1 Present 8.800 9.692 12.757 15.009 16.388 22.964
FEMQ4 8.902 9.777 12.794 15.196 16.664 23.354
1 Present 3.225 9.429 10.664 13.321 13.781 15.968
FEMQ4 3.232 9.431 10.775 13.520 13.848 16.617
(30°, 30°, 30°) þ1 Present 10.755 11.502 14.840 17.589 18.720 26.555
FEMQ4 10.863 11.596 14.871 17.762 19.005 26.937
1 Present 3.257 9.434 9.882 12.595 12.992 14.752
FEMQ4 3.268 9.458 9.930 12.782 13.016 15.499
(45°, 45°, 45°) þ1 Present 11.758 12.227 15.705 18.721 19.608 28.005
FEMQ4 11.859 12.330 15.737 18.893 19.887 28.386
1 Present 3.300 9.568 9.635 12.461 12.809 14.359
FEMQ4 3.314 9.595 9.668 12.667 12.786 15.165
(0°, 90°, 0°) þ1 Present 7.318 8.124 10.580 12.607 13.765 19.191
FEMQ4 7.407 8.208 10.624 12.831 14.009 19.614
1 Present 3.468 10.368 12.273 15.263 15.879 18.554
FEMQ4 3.474 10.345 12.458 15.488 16.006 19.225
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Table 24
Buckling loads of a CCCC plate with a complicated cutout for various orientations under shear loading.
1 2 3 4 5 6
(0°, 0°, 0°) þ1 Present 13.865 16.803 18.418 21.391 22.543 28.385
FEMQ4 14.113 17.057 18.941 22.159 22.727 29.234
1 Present 6.024 20.892 22.322 24.353 25.027 30.333
FEMQ4 6.055 21.812 22.312 24.601 26.692 31.427
(15°, 15°, 15°) þ1 Present 16.068 19.585 20.806 24.584 25.683 33.070
FEMQ4 16.348 19.847 21.298 25.326 25.804 33.799
1 Present 5.528 19.394 20.679 21.783 22.236 25.849
FEMQ4 5.555 20.206 20.791 22.302 23.471 26.882
(30°, 30°, 30°) þ1 Present 18.535 22.258 23.593 26.416 29.049 37.269
FEMQ4 18.817 22.484 24.062 27.053 29.072 38.095
1 Present 5.237 18.859 19.807 20.588 21.203 22.817
FEMQ4 5.272 19.525 20.359 21.313 21.932 23.730
(45°, 45°, 45°) þ1 Present 19.741 23.384 25.795 25.873 30.633 39.295
FEMQ4 20.008 23.584 26.255 26.447 30.597 40.324
1 Present 5.145 18.863 19.355 20.570 20.695 21.728
FEMQ4 5.187 19.368 20.306 21.233 21.459 22.446
(0°, 90°, 0°) þ1 Present 14.092 16.923 18.685 21.415 22.882 28.579
FEMQ4 14.347 17.177 19.244 22.189 23.070 29.502
1 Present 6.061 21.365 22.867 24.671 25.244 30.273
FEMQ4 6.096 22.314 22.905 24.990 26.902 31.375
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