International Research Journal of Engineering, IT & Scientific Research Available online at https://sloap.org/journals/index.php/irjeis/ Vol. 5 No. 3 May 2019, pages: 28~41 ISSN: 2454-2261 https://doi.org/10.21744/irjeis.v5n3.645 28 Effect of Reversing Lamination Scheme Osama Mohammed Elmardi Suleiman a Mahmoud Yassin Osman b Tagelsir Hassan c Article history: Abstract Received: 27 December 2018 Accepted: 31 March 2019 Published: 31 May 2019 New numerical results are generated for in-plane compressive biaxial buckling which serves to quantify the effect of reversing lamination scheme on buckling loading. The buckling loads have been determined for two modulus ratios 40 and 5. It is observed that the buckling loads are completely the same for the given first three modes. Therefore, it can be concluded that the buckling load of laminated plates will remain the same even if the lamination order is reversed. The reason behind this is that the transformed elastic coefficients, [  ], are equal for both lamination schemes. Keywords: classical laminated plate theory; composite laminated decks plates; finite element; Fortran program; reversing lamination scheme; 2454-2261 © Copyright 2019. The Author. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-SA license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) All rights reserved. Author correspondence: Osama Mohammed Elmardi Suleiman, Nile Valley University, (Sudan/East Africa). Email address: osamamm64@gmail.com 1. Introduction The effects of lamination scheme on the non dimensional critical buckling loads of laminated composite plates are investigated. The material chosen has the following properties: 1 / 2 = 5, 10, 20, 25, 40 ;  12 = 13 = 23 = 0.5 2 ;  12 = 0.25 . Several numerical methods could be used in this study, but the main ones are finite difference method (FDM), dynamic relaxation coupled with finite difference method (DR) as is shown in references (Turvey & Osman, 1990; Turvey & Osman, 1989); Turvey & Osman, 1991; Elmardi, 2014; 2015; 2015a; 2015b; 2016), and finite element method (FEM). In the present work, a numerical method known as the finite element method (FEM) is used. It is a numerical procedure for obtaining solutions to many of the problems encountered in engineering analysis. It has two primary subdivisions. The first utilizes discrete elements to obtain the joint displacements and member forces of a structural a Nile Valley University, (Sudan/East Africa) b Kassala University, (Sudan/East Africa) c Omdurman Islamic University, (Sudan/East Africa)