Modal Analysis of Laminated Composite Beams Based on Elastic Wave Theory

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The reverberation ray matrix method (MRRM) for analyzing dynamic response of elastic trusses is extended and used to solve the natural frequency and vibration mode of laminated beams. In this study, the MRRM is employed to obtain the frequency response function (FRF) of displacement of a laminated beam under the action of a unit impulse load. The natural frequencies are determined from the peak of the curve of FRF when a resonant frequency is approached. And the mode is retrieved from the ad joint matrix of the coefficient matrix of the governing equations of MRRM. The accuracy of result of MRRM is verified by a simply supported symmetrically laminated beam compared with the analytical solution of classical theory, which is also proved by finite element method (FEM).

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