The influence of the configuration of the fiber-metal laminates on the dispersion relations of the elastic wave modes

The current work is devoted to the determination of dispersion curves for elastic wave modes. The studied elastic waves propagate across metal-fiber hybrid composites. In order to solve the problem, special software has been developed with the use of C++. This software works with the MS Windows operating system and the proposed solution is based on the multi-threading mechanism. It makes possible to significantly speed up the calculations. The relatively new approach is used namely the stiffness matrix method. At the very beginning, the dispersion curves are determined for the traditional composite materials of cross-ply configuration, for which the layers are made of glass fiber/epoxy resin and carbon fiber/epoxy resin. The impact of the total number of layers on the dispersion curves is investigated. Next, the influence of the thickness of the layers, which are made of aluminum alloy, on the dispersion characteristic is studied. In the second case, it is assumed that the total thickness of the composite material wall for all cases is identical.