The present research work deals with the prediction of thermo elastic behavior of the thin four-layered Cross-ply and Angle-ply Hybrid Fiber Reinforced Plastic (FRP) skew laminated composite plate with circular cutout subjected to uniform pressure load and thermal loading using Classical Laminates Theory (CLT) based finite element method. The commercial finite element software ANSYS has been successfully executed for the validation of the finite element model and evaluation of thin-plane

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... s in the skew laminates with cutouts. And by considering two composite materials the effect of size of the circular cutout and skew angle on the stresses are of the two cases i) the Cross-ply and ii) Angle-ply laminates. The principle stresses and shear stresses are evaluated for different cross sections. The present analysis is useful for the safe and effective design of the skew laminates with circular cutout.