The purpose of this paper is to develop a simple yet efficient formulation for a sym metrically laminated composite plate finite element and to adopt some highly efficient numerical algorithms using stand-alone desktop microcomputers for structural analysis and design. It is also the purpose to further develop the numerical procedures for a pre viously developed beam element and to further test it on examples.
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