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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MECHANICAL SCIENCES
Volume 65, Issue 1, Pages 97-104Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijmecsci.2012.09.007
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Free vibration; Generally laminated composite beam; Legendre polynomials; Lagrange multipliers; Variational principle
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In this paper, the free vibration analysis of generally laminated composite beam (LCB) based on Timoshenko beam theory are presented using the method of Lagrange multipliers where in the free vibration problem is posed as a constrained variational problem. The effect of material couplings (bending-tension, bending-twist, and tension-twist couplings) with the effects of shear deformation, rotary inertia and Poisson's effect are taken into account. Analytical expression for the natural frequencies and mode shapes are presented. The calculated natural frequencies are verified against some available results in the literature and very good agreement is observed. Furthermore, the effects of some parameters such as slenderness ratio, the rotary inertia, the shear deformation, material anisotropy, ply configuration and boundary conditions on the natural frequency and mode shape are examined. (C) 2012 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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