Abstract
A new concept of a layerwise optimization (LO) approach is proposed to optimize vibration behavior for the maximum natural frequency of laminated composite plates. Design variables are taken to be the fiber orientation angles in all N layers. This usually causes a rapid increase in computation time due to the search for optimum solutions in the N dimensional space. The LO makes it possible, however, that this multi-dimensional optimization problem reduces into only N times repetition of one-dimensional search.
