Minimization of delamination effect on laminated composite plates using functional materials (piezoelectric and magnetostrictive)

In this paper, minimization of delamination effect on laminated composite plates using smart (piezoelectric and magnetostrictive) materials has been investigated. The static and dynamic responses of the smart composite plates with/without delamination have been obtained using the finite element method. The validation and comparison studies of the laminated composite plate have also been performed to show the level of accuracy of the presently adopted model by solving a few examples related to static and frequency cases. For control and minimization of delamination effect, smart materials have been introduced at the various layers of the laminated panel. Further, the influence of delamination size, location, orientation scheme, aspect ratio, modular ratio and different boundary conditions on the dynamic response of the smart delaminated composite plate has been analyzed. Finally, optimization study has been carried out to find the optimal value of these parameters by minimizing the difference between the frequency responses. Here, two optimization algorithms TLBO and PSO have been considered to carry out the optimization study and results obtained from both techniques are validated and compared.