Laminate MATLAB or Octave Code

The following example illustrates the use of the composite laminate program. The program is either utilized in MATLAB or Octave from the program laminate.m. 

Assume that there are four lamina that comprise the laminate. The composite material is carbon fiber in an epoxy matrix with the (0/30/45/90) layup. Notice that this layup is neither symmetric nor antisymmetric. 

The input data file for the programs is initially named compdata.txt. Table E.l shows the format of the data file. Thus, specifically the compdata.txt file is shown in Table E.2. 

The load input is prompted from the screen either as loads and moments or strains and curvatures. 

When the laminate program is run, the following text in italics is sent to the screen by the program and the text in bold is the input from the user  

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