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Shock and Vibration
Volume 2016, Article ID 3707658, 14 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2016/3707658
Research Article

On the Finite Element Free Vibration Analysis of Delaminated Layered Beams: A New Assembly Technique

Nicholas H. Erdelyi and Seyed M. Hashemi

Department of Aerospace Engineering, Ryerson University, 350 Victoria Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 2K3

Received 20 July 2015; Revised 16 October 2015; Accepted 21 October 2015

Academic Editor: Longjun Dong

Copyright © 2016 Nicholas H. Erdelyi and Seyed M. Hashemi. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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