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A balanced laminate has pairs of plies with the same thickness and material, where the ply angles are 0 and 90 degrees or 45 and -45 degrees. The ply angles in a balanced laminate can also be 0 and 90 degrees. Angle-ply laminates are a type of balanced laminate where the ply angles are 0 and 90 degrees.

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Lam

A balanced laminate has pairs of plies with the same thickness and material, where the ply angles are 0 and 90 degrees or 45 and -45 degrees. The ply angles in a balanced laminate can also be 0 and 90 degrees. Angle-ply laminates are a type of balanced laminate where the ply angles are 0 and 90 degrees.

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A laminate is called balanced laminate when it has pairs of plies with same thickness and

material and the angles of plies are and . However, the balancedlaminate can also have layers
oriented at and . For thislaminate also are zero. It should be noted that angle-ply laminates are
balanced laminates.

Classification of laminates examples (a) Symmetric laminate (b) Cross-ply laminate (c) Angle-ply
laminate (d) Anti-symmetric laminate and (e) Balanced laminate

Symmetric Laminates:

A laminate is called symmetric when the material, angle and thickness of the layers are the same
above and below the mid-plane. For example laminate

Cross-Ply Laminates:

A laminate is called cross-ply laminate if all the plies used to fabricate the laminate are only

and

For example

Cross-Ply Laminates:
A laminate is called cross-ply laminate if all the plies used to fabricate the laminate are only and

For example

Angle-Ply Laminates:

A laminate is called angle-ply laminate if it has plies of the same thickness and material and are oriented
at and . For example

Anti-symmetric Laminates:

A laminate is called anti-symmetric when the material and thickness of the plies are same above
and below the mid-plane but the orientation of the plies at same distance above and below the
mid-plane have opposite signs. For example,

Balanced Laminates:

A laminate is called balanced laminate when it has pairs of plies with same thickness and
material and the angles of plies are and . However, the balanced laminate can also have layers
oriented at and . For this laminate also are zero. It should be noted that angle-ply laminates are
balanced laminates. For example,

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