ABSTRACT
The effect of material and geometric uncertainty on the dynamic responses of composite plates is presented in this chapter. A bottom up surrogate based approach is employed to quantify the variability in free vibration responses of composite cantilever plates due to uncertainty in ply orientation angle, elastic modulus and mass density. The finite element method is employed incorporating effects of transverse shear deformation based on Mindlin’s theory in conjunction with a random variable approach. Parametric studies are carried out to determine the stochastic frequency response functions (SFRF) along with stochastic natural frequencies and modeshapes. In this study, a surrogate based approach using General High Dimensional Model Representations (GHDMR) is employed for achieving computational efficiency in quantifying uncertainty. This chapter also presents an uncertainty quantification scheme using commercial finite element software (ANSYS) and thereby comparative results of stochastic natural frequencies are furnished for uncertainity quantification using GHDMR approach and ANSYS.
