The present work discusses the bending, buckling and free vibration of natural fibre reinforced composite (NFC) plates initially. Numerical formulation is done based on higher order shear deformation theory and programming in Matlab environment is performed. The results for NFC plates are presented for several parametric variations. Finally, as an application of NFC panels, the cylindrical pressure vessel structure is analysed by considering flax-epoxy as inner laminate layers in combination with carbon-epoxy as outer laminate layers. The deformation and stress values are presented for various load conditions on the NFC pressure vessel.
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