Orthotropic Elastic Properties Assessment of Sandwich Laminates

Modeling of Effective Elastic Properties of Carbon/carbon Laminates

Effective Properties of Smart Elastic Laminates and the Screening Phenomenon

Abstract-Non-stationary phenomena arising in structures can be effectively controlled via smart (intelligent) materials. The corresponding mathematical problems contain controls in the coefficients of hyperbolic equations, these controls depending both on position and time. When appropriately activated, such controls may provide 100% screening of some extended parts of the structure from the in...

Assessment of Effective Elastic Properties of Honeycomb Cores by Finite Element Analysis of Sandwich Panels

Material tailoring for orthotropic elastic rotating disks

Article history: Received 26 October 2010 Received in revised form 6 December 2010 Accepted 9 December 2010 Available online 14 December 2010

Nacre: An orthotropic and bimodular elastic material

A new micromechanical model for nacre (mother-of-pearl) is proposed, based on an accurate description of the actual microstructure of the material. In the small-strain regime (where damage and fracture are excluded), it is shown via homogenization techniques that the mechanical behaviour of nacre is: (i) orthotropic, with a strong difference in directional stiffnesses; (ii) bimodular (different...