Dynamics of Multilayered Composite Plates With Shape Memory Alloy Wires

2003 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 313-327 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. J. Zak ◽  
M. P. Cartmell ◽  
W. Ostachowicz

In this paper certain aspects of the dynamic behavior of a multilayered, composite plate with shape memory alloys (SMA) wires have been investigated. The influence of parameters such as the orientation and location of SMA wires, the orientation and relative volume fraction of reinforcing fibers, the thickness-to-length and length-to-width ratios, and different boundary conditions, on changes in the critical load, the natural frequencies and the modes of vibrations of the plate have all been studied and discussed in the paper. The use of two different techniques, generally known in the literature as the active property tuning and active strain energy tuning methods, has also been investigated. The results presented in this paper have been obtained by the use of the finite element method and a new finite element formulated for multilayered composite plates has been applied for this purpose.

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
pp. 632825 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zainudin A. Rasid ◽  
Rizal Zahari ◽  
Amran Ayob

Shape memory alloy (SMA) wires were embedded within laminated composite plates to take advantage of the shape memory effect property of the SMA in improving post-buckling behavior of composite plates. A nonlinear finite element formulation was developed for this study. The plate-bending formulation used in this study was developed based on the first order shear deformation theory, where the von Karman's nonlinear moderate strain terms were added to the strain equations. The effect of the SMA was captured by adding recovery stress term in the constitutive equation of the SMA composite plates. Values of the recovery stress of the SMA were determined using Brinson's model. Using the principle of virtual work and the total Lagrangian approach, the final finite element nonlinear governing equation for the post-buckling of SMA composite plates was derived. Buckling and post-buckling analyses were then conducted on the symmetric angle-ply and cross-ply SMA composite plates. The effect of several parameters such as the activation temperature, volume fraction, and the initial strain of the SMA on the post-buckling behavior of the SMA composite plates were studied. It was found that significant improvements in the post-buckling behavior for composite plates can be attained.


Abstract. In order to study the effect of the layup structure on the static strength and low-velocity impact strength of carbon fiber/epoxy composite (CFRP) laminates, theoretical simulation analysis under different laying angles have been carried out. In this study, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) models for different CFRP laminate specimens are created using ANSYS Workbench by changing the relative volume fraction of 0°, 45° and 90° plies in each specimen and their relative location. The FEA results revealed that the increase of relative volume of 90° ply will improve the impact the impact resistance performance, while the increase of relative volume of 45° ply will take the opposite effect. Moreover, when the relative volume fraction of 0°, 45° and 90° plies are the same, the strength performance of the laminate cannot be improved by changing the thickness of the outermost layer. The study illustrated the significant effects of different stacking sequences and laying angles on the tensile and flexural failure mechanisms in composite laminates, leading to some suggestions to improve the design of composite laminates.


2006 ◽  
Vol 326-328 ◽  
pp. 1765-1768 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meng Kao Yeh ◽  
Kuei Chang Tung

The dynamic instability behavior of delaminated composite plates under transverse excitations was investigated experimentally and analytically. An electromagnetic device, acting like a spring with alternating stiffness, was used to parametrically excite the delaminated composite plates transversely. An analytical method, combined with the finite element method, was used to determine the instability regions of the delaminated composite plates based on the modal parameters of the composite plate and the position, the stiffness of the electromagnetic device. The delamination size and position of composite plates were varied to assess their effects on the excitation frequencies of simple and combination resonances in instability regions. The experimental results were found to agree with the analytical ones.


2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (2) ◽  
pp. 0376 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gatea Et al.

Metal nanoparticles can serve as an efficient nano-heat source with confinement photothermal effects. Thermo-plasmonic technology allows researchers to control the temperature at a nanoscale due to the possibility of precise light propagation. The response of opto-thermal generation of single gold-silica core-shell nanoparticle immersed in water and Poly-vinylpyrrolidone surrounding media is theoretically investigated. Two lasers (CW and fs pulses) at the plasmonic resonance (532 nm) are utilized. For this purpose, finite element method is used via COMSOL multiphysics to find a numerical computation of absorption cross section for the proposed core –shell NP in different media. Thermo-plasmonic response for both lasers is studied. The heat profile of different nanostructures is estimated. The results revealed that the temperature distribution profile was varied due to changing in the relative volume fraction between the core and the shell of nanoparticle.


1999 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-128
Author(s):  
Pham Thi Toan

In the present paper, the goffered multilayered composite cylindrical shells is directly calculated by finite element method. Numerical results on displacements, internal forces and moments are obtained for various kinds of external loads and different boundary conditions.


2012 ◽  
Vol 445 ◽  
pp. 577-582
Author(s):  
Zainudin A. Rasid ◽  
Saiful Amri Mazlan ◽  
Amran Ayob ◽  
Rizal Zahari ◽  
Dayang Laila Majid ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (44) ◽  
pp. 6037-6046 ◽  
Author(s):  
Craig A. Machado ◽  
Roger Tran ◽  
Taylor A. Jenkins ◽  
Amanda M. Pritzlaff ◽  
Michael B. Sims ◽  
...  

The morphology of self-assembled block copolymer aggregates is highly dependent on the relative volume fraction of the hydrophobic block.


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