VIBRATION OF A DELAMINATED BEAM-PLATE RELATIVE TO BUCKLED STATES

Free vibrations of delaminated beam-plates with respect to postbuckled referential states are studied. If the postbuckling deformation of the referential state is symmetric with respect to the mid-point, then the symmetric and antisymmetrc vibration modes are uncoupled. Short delaminations which do not significantly degradate the overall stiffness of the beam-plate have little effect on the lowest modes of vibration and their frequencies, while the presence of a long delamination generally introduces additional vibration frequencies, the associated mode shapes of which show out-of-phase motions of the upper and lower delaminated layers. These new vibration modes and frequencies depend sensitively on the delamination length and location and on the magnitude of the postbuckling load. Hence their detection may indicate the presence and the nature of internal delamination damage. © 1992.