Detection of delamination in composite laminated plates using filtered mode shapes

Author(s):  
Sayyed Roohollah Kazemi Bazardehi ◽  
Mohammad Ali Kouchakzadeh

Filtered mode shapes are used to detect the presence, location, size and shape of the delaminations in composite laminated plates with various boundary conditions. This method is the extension of a previous study by the authors on the delamination detection in the beams using irregularities of the mode shapes. The mode shapes are filtered to separate the smooth and irregular parts. Presence and situation of delamination affects these separated parts, and these effects are used to detect the delamination. Here, two new indicators, named ‘slope of smooth part’ and ‘irregularities in the slope of smooth part’, are introduced to increase the clarity of detected damage and reduce the noisy effects. The former one is obtained by differentiating the smooth part of the mode shape and the latter by applying the filter on the slope of smooth part for another time. Using this method and the mentioned indicators, delaminations may be detected in the plates using the data of just the damaged structure. This is considered as an important advantage of the method as we do not need the intact structure data. The method is validated utilizing the numerical data for a delaminated plate model. This method lacks the ability to locate the position of delamination through the thickness and the delamination should not be too close to the edges of the plate.

2021 ◽  
pp. 107754632110377
Author(s):  
Fengxia He ◽  
Zhong Luo ◽  
Lei Li ◽  
Xiaoxia Zhang

Similitude laws can be used to extrapolate the vibration characteristic of a small, inexpensive, and easily tested model into structural behavior for the full-size prototype. In this article, a systematic similitude approach is proposed to predict the natural frequency, mode shape, and vibration response of composite laminated plates. The emphasis of this article is to predict the vibration characteristic of composite laminated plates in an effective and convenient way. Sensitivity analysis (SA) is introduced to improve the prediction accuracy of natural frequency. For distortion similarity, the prediction accuracy is improved close to 5%. Modal assurance criterion (MAC) measures the consistency of mode shapes of the full-size prototype and scaled models. The influence of stacking sequence on mode consistency is investigated. Similitude based on virtual mode and statistical energy (SVMSE) is proposed to extrapolate the transient response of the prototype to simulate the shock environment, such as satellite–rocket separation, etc. In conclusion, the prediction accuracy of natural frequency, mode consistency, and response coincidence are considered comprehensively to extrapolate the vibration characteristic of the full-size laminated plates.


2014 ◽  
Vol 670-671 ◽  
pp. 158-163 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hui Fen Peng ◽  
Cheng Wang ◽  
Peng Wang

To describe vibration characteristic of composite laminated plates with various fiber orientations, a composite laminated finite element, which follows classical lamination theory, was constructed. In each ply of rectangular composite laminated plates, the fiber orientation changes with respect to the horizontal coordinate. Natural frequencies and mode shapes of composite laminated plates were studied. The first six natural frequencies and mode shapes of composite laminated plates with various fiber orientations are obtained. The accuracy of this composite laminated element is verified by comparing numerical and theoretical results. The results show that the changes of fiber orientation bring a greater degree of flexibility for structure design of composite laminated plates, which can be used to adjust frequencies and mode shapes of composite laminated plates according to practical engineering need.


Author(s):  
Ramesh Lanka ◽  
Putti Srinivasa Rao

In this current work, a new methodology based on the square of mode shape curvature (SMSC) is presented that relates the mode shapes and its curvature changes before and after the damage for localization and sizing of the surface crack in plate-type structures. The significance of this method is it has the capability to portray accurate shape and exact location of the surface crack in a plate-like structure which are related to low and high elastic modes on dense and coarse measurement grids. The efficiency of the proposed SMSC is examined using experimental and numerical data acquired from modal analysis on the aluminum plate containing single and multi-surface cracks with a fixed-free condition using non-contact measurement a scanning laser vibrometer and on simple finite element plate model. As evidence of experimental and numerical study results, highly accurate crack characterization has been attained through the proposed method. In implementing this method, only a few modes of the structure are required. Further, the impact of the mode order on the effectiveness of crack detection, boundary distortion treatment, and grid density analysis was also performed by the proposed method.


2007 ◽  
Vol 80 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-428 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pizhong Qiao ◽  
Kan Lu ◽  
Wahyu Lestari ◽  
Jialai Wang

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (6) ◽  
pp. 1485-1505
Author(s):  
Lingchang Meng ◽  
Fengming Li

AbstractThe nonlinear transverse vibrations of ordered and disordered two-dimensional (2D) two-span composite laminated plates are studied. Based on the von Karman's large deformation theory, the equations of motion of each-span composite laminated plate are formulated using Hamilton's principle, and the partial differential equations are discretized into nonlinear ordinary ones through the Galerkin's method. The primary resonance and 1/3 sub-harmonic resonance are investigated by using the method of multiple scales. The amplitude-frequency relations of the steady-state responses and their stability analyses in each kind of resonance are carried out. The effects of the disorder ratio and ply angle on the two different resonances are analyzed. From the numerical results, it can be concluded that disorder in the length of the two-span 2D composite laminated plate will cause the nonlinear vibration localization phenomenon, and with the increase of the disorder ratio, the vibration localization phenomenon will become more obvious. Moreover, the amplitude-frequency curves for both primary resonance and 1/3 sub-harmonic resonance obtained by the present analytical method are compared with those by the numerical integration, and satisfactory precision can be obtained for engineering applications and the results certify the correctness of the present approximately analytical solutions.


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