Research Article

Effects of Delamination on Guided Waves in a Symmetric Laminated Composite Beam

Table 2

Comparison of the natural frequencies (Hz) obtained by SEM and ANSYS for the delaminated composite beam shown in Figure 5 ( = 5 mm, ).

Mode number13510

SEM (12)21.482375.431204.34155.3
ANSYS (174)21.504385.521421.910490
ANSYS (622)21.499375.581206.04190.6
ANSYS (3422)21.499375.551205.34166.9

Note: ( ) is the number of degrees of freedom used in the analysis.