Piezoelectric composites have emerged as a versatile platform with immense potential for
tailoring electro-mechanical properties to cater to a wide spectrum of applications. Central to …

In the present study, an integrated material and structure (IMAS) design approach is
proposed for fabrication of a multifunctional grille composite sandwich plate. It consists of …

With regard to future heavy-lift launch vehicles, the buckling analysis and optimization of
large-scale stiffened shells by finite element method (FEM) suffer from unbearable …

The present paper develops and implements finite element formulation for the asymptotic
homogenization theory for periodic composite plate and shell structures, earlier developed …

As a potential aerospace structural concept, hierarchical stiffened plates under axial
compression are characterized by multiple local features, which lead to the buckling …

In this research, it is aimed to investigate the effect of boundary condition and variable shell
thickness on the vibration behavior of grid-stiffened composite conical shells. In order to …

Abstract The Tandon-Weng (TW), the Halpin-Tsai (HT) micromechanical models and a novel
numerical implementation of asymptotic homogenization method (NIAH) for determining the …

This paper proposes an improved asymptotic homogenization method to account for the
homogenization of composite sandwich plates with lattice grids (CSPLG). It is believed that …

A comprehensive micromechanical model for the analysis of a smart composite piezo-
magneto-thermoelastic thin plate with rapidly varying thickness is developed in Part I of …

The comprehensive micromechanical models for the analysis of piezo-magneto-thermo-
elastic smart composite structures with orthotropic constituents are developed. The …