Governing equations of motion are presented for arbitrarily laminated fiber reinforced composite material truncated conical shell in which each layer is permitted an arbitrary fixed fiber orientation. Each layer has been considered to be of a specially orthotropic material with its directional elastic properties depending on the fiber orientation. Extension, bending, in-plane shear and transverse shear in all the layers have been considered and inertia effects due to transverse, meridional and rotary motions are taken into account. Convenient trigonometric series are used as solution functions in Galerkin's method to reduce the governing equations to sets of matrix equations. The correspondence principle of linear viscoelasticity has been used for evaluating the damping effectiveness of the shell. Computer programs have been developed for axisymmetric and antisymmetric vibrations of multi-layered conical shells with simply supported edges. The influence of apex angle upon the resonance frequencies and the associated system loss factors of laminated FRP conical shells is investigated.
