• Journal of Korean Society of Steel Construction
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• v.12 no.6
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• pp.691-700
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• 2000

A powerful analytical procedure and strain energy analysis to investigate the free vibration of antisymmetric angle-ply laminated plates, having one pair of opposite edges simply supported, are develped on the basis of the Yang, Norris and Stavsky (YSN) theory. The equation of motion of the plate are solved by the use of collocation method. A range of results are presented for plates to show the effects of modulus ratio and number of layers on natural frequency. In addition, an analysis of the strain energy distributions is used as an aid for the better understanding of the vibration characteristics of the plates.