Investigation of Effects of Fiber Orientation Angles on Deflection Behavior of Cantilever Laminated Composite Square Plates

Year 2020, Volume: 23 Issue: 3, 633 - 639, 01.09.2020

Savaş Evran

https://doi.org/10.2339/politeknik.558815

Cited By: 3

Abstract

In this study, the deflection response of cantilever
laminated composite square plates subjected to the weight of itself was
analyzed using finite element and Taguchi methods. The plates with 12 plies
were made of glass fiber reinforced polymer composites (GFRP). The arrangements
and fiber orientation angles of the plies were conducted using Taguchi’s L9
(33) orthogonal array. Each four plies was assumed to be control factor. Fiber
orientation angles were varied from 10 to 90 in degree. Plates were modelled
using finite element software ANSYS Parametric Design Language. Analysis of
signal-to-noise (S/N) ratio was used in order to evaluate the control factors
with the optimum levels for minimum deflection response. Analysis of variance
was carried out in order to analyze the powerful influential control factors
and their percent contributions on responses.  

Keywords

Fiber reinforced composite laminates, finite element analysis, Taguchi method, plate

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