Recent developments in manufacturing, mechanics, and design optimization of variable stiffness composites

D Punera, P Mukherjee - Journal of Reinforced Plastics and …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The functional advantages of tailored stiffness, often seen in nature, are also utilized in
composite structures. Advancements in the multiaxis tow placement and automated fiber …

A review on XIGA method for computational fracture mechanics applications

A Yadav, RK Godara, G Bhardwaj - Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper is devoted to a state-of-the-art review on extended Isogeometric Analysis (XIGA)
for computational fracture mechanics. The basic knowledge and formulations of the recently …

A new and simple HSDT for thermal stability analysis of FG sandwich plates

A Tounsi, A Bouhadra, AA Bousahla… - Steel and Composite …, 2017 - dbpia.co.kr
The novelty of this work is the use of a new displacement field that includes undetermined
integral terms for analyzing thermal buckling response of functionally graded (FG) sandwich …

A modified FSDT-based four nodes finite shell element for thermal buckling analysis of functionally graded plates and cylindrical shells

S Trabelsi, A Frikha, S Zghal, F Dammak - Engineering Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
In this paper, the thermal buckling behavior of functionally graded plates and cylindrical
shells is investigated. By considering a modified First order Shear Deformation Theory, the …

Isogeometric large amplitude free vibration of graphene reinforced laminated plates in thermal environment using NURBS formulation

Y Kiani - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Present study proposes a nonlinear formulation to study the large amplitude free vibration of
composite laminated plates reinforced by graphene sheets. Volume fraction of graphene …

NURBS-based isogeometric thermal postbuckling analysis of temperature dependent graphene reinforced composite laminated plates

Y Kiani - Thin-Walled Structures, 2018 - Elsevier
A thermal postbuckling analysis for composite laminated plates reinforced with graphene
sheets is performed in this research. All of the thermomechanical properties of the composite …

Dynamic analysis of functionally graded carbon nanotubes-reinforced plate and shell structures using a double directors finite shell element

A Frikha, S Zghal, F Dammak - Aerospace Science and Technology, 2018 - Elsevier
The present paper aims at the study of the dynamic behavior of functionally graded carbon
nanotubes-reinforced composite shell structures (FG-CNTRC) via forced vibration analysis …

Isogeometric thermal buckling analysis of temperature dependent FG graphene reinforced laminated plates using NURBS formulation

M Mirzaei, Y Kiani - Composite Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
Present research aims to analyse the thermal buckling response of composite laminated
plates reinforced with graphene sheets. Volume fraction of graphene in each layer may be …

Size-dependant behaviour of functionally graded microplates based on the modified strain gradient elasticity theory and isogeometric analysis

S Thai, HT Thai, TP Vo, VI Patel - Computers & Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
This paper presents a robust numerical model, which takes into account both size-
dependent and shear deformation effects, for the bending, buckling and free vibration …

Structural shape optimization by IGABEM and particle swarm optimization algorithm

SH Sun, TT Yu, TT Nguyen, E Atroshchenko… - … Analysis with Boundary …, 2018 - Elsevier
In this paper, a new approach is developed for structural shape optimization, which consists
in coupling the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm and the isogeometric boundary …