Out-of-Plane Buckling of Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Sheets Under Homogeneous Biaxial Conditions

1995 ◽  
Vol 62 (4) ◽  
pp. 834-840 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. R. Christie ◽  
I. F. Collins ◽  
D. Bhattacharyya

The mechanical behavior of fiber-reinforced composite thermoplastic sheets during forming processes is modelled as a viscous fluid with inextensibility and incompressibility constraints. Techniques of linear stability analysis are used to study the growth or decay of initial imperfections in plane sheets reinforced by two families of fibers subjected to biaxial strains. This theory delimits situations when buckles can be expected to form during forming operations.

2007 ◽  
Vol 2007 (0) ◽  
pp. 413-414
Author(s):  
Keisuke HAYABUSA ◽  
Dai KUDO ◽  
Toshihiro OHTANI ◽  
Shigeru MORINAGA ◽  
Masaki Ohmiya ◽  
...  

2018 ◽  
Vol 856 ◽  
pp. 552-579
Author(s):  
Tapan Kumar Hota ◽  
Manoranjan Mishra

A non-modal linear stability analysis (NMA) of the miscible viscous fingering in a porous medium is studied for a toy model of non-monotonic viscosity variation. The onset of instability and its physical mechanism are captured in terms of the singular values of the propagator matrix corresponding to the non-autonomous linear equations. We discuss two types of non-monotonic viscosity profiles, namely, with unfavourable (when a less viscous fluid displaces a high viscous fluid) and with favourable (when a more viscous fluid displaces a less viscous fluid) endpoint viscosities. A linear stability analysis yields instabilities for such viscosity variations. Using the optimal perturbation structure, we are able to show that an initially unconditional stable state becomes unstable corresponding to the most unstable initial disturbance. In addition, we also show that to understand the spatio-temporal evolution of the perturbations it is necessary to analyse the viscosity gradient with respect to the concentration and the location of the maximum concentration $c_{m}$. For the favourable endpoint viscosities, a weak transient instability is observed when the viscosity maximum moves close to the pure invading or defending fluid. This instability is attributed to an interplay between the sharp viscosity gradient and the favourable endpoint viscosity contrast. Further, the usefulness of the non-modal analysis demonstrating the physical mechanism of the quadruple structure of the perturbations from the optimal concentration disturbances is discussed. We demonstrate the dissimilarity between the quasi-steady-state approach and NMA in finding the correct perturbation structure and the onset, for both the favourable and unfavourable viscosity profiles. The correctness of the linear perturbation structure obtained from the non-modal stability analysis is validated through nonlinear simulations. We have found that the nonlinear simulations and NMA results are in good agreement. In summary, a non-monotonic variation of the viscosity of a miscible fluid pair is seen to have a larger influence on the onset of fingering instabilities than the corresponding Arrhenius type relationship.


2014 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 1251-1262 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. Vijaya Ramnath ◽  
C. Elanchezhian ◽  
P. V. Nirmal ◽  
G. Prem Kumar ◽  
V. Santhosh Kumar ◽  
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