This paper presents new exact 3-D (three-dimensional) elasticity closed-form solutions for out-of-plane free vibration of thick rectangular single layered FG (functionally graded) plates and thick rectangular homogeneous plate coated by a functionally graded layer with simply supported boundary conditions. It is assumed that the plate is on a Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundation and elasticity ...

THE FOURIER SPECTRAL ELEMENT METHOD FOR VIBRATION ANALYSIS OFGENERAL DYNAMIC STRUCTURESbyXUEFENG ZHANGMay 2012Advisor: Dr. Wen LiMajor: Mechanical EngineeringDegree: Doctor of PhilosophyThe Fourier Spectral Element Method (FSEM) was proposed by Wen Li on the vibrationof simple beams (Li, 2000), and was extended to the vibration of rectangular plates (Li, ...

With the increasing applications of laminated composites in all kinds of industries, it becomes imperative to detect delamination, a frequently occurring damage which causes substantial stiffness loss in composite structures. This paper presents an approach to assess delaminations (in terms of their size, in-plane location and interface) in fibre reinforced laminated composite plates using natu...

Global energy sources such as coal and oil are limited, and the burning of such fossil resources creates pollution problems. Wind energy offers one of several promising clean alternatives to carbon-based fuels. However, the composite materials currently available for producing wind turbine blades cannot accommodate the scale-up of wind energy due to their high price and disposal challenges (e.g...

one of the causes of perturbation at vertical intakes is the happening of vortices with an air core. the vortices with an air core occur whenever the submergence of the intake is less than a critical value. anti-vortex devices and specially plates are used to avoid the negative effects of the air-core vortices. if plates are used, then the geometry of them should be studied experimentally. acco...

An expression for the eddy current loss in solid rectangular cores is obtained using linear electromagnetic field analysis. Wherefrom text book formula for eddy current loss is derived highlighting various assumptions involved. To get an insight into the current interruption phenomena, electromagnetic fields in a composite rectangular core are analyzed. It is concluded that the reduction in edd...

This study presents critical buckling of functionally graded soft ferromagnetic porous (FGFP) rectangular plates, under magnetic field with simply supported boundary condition. Equilibrium and stability equations of a porous rectangular plate in transverse magnetic field are derived. The geometrical nonlinearities are considered in the Love-Kirchhoff hypothesis sense. The formulations are compa...

A NURBS-based isogeometric finite element formulation is developed and adopted to the free vibration analysis of finite square and skew laminated plates. Variable stiffness plies are assumed due to implementation of curvilinear fiberreinforcements. It is assumed due to employment of tow placement technology, in each ply of variable stiffness composite laminated plate the fiber reinforceme...

Abstract. Glass façades are often required to withstand against explosive events due premeditated or accidental causes. Laminates made by glass plies bonded thin polymeric foils (laminated glass) need be used avoid catastrophic breakage. The paradigmatic case study considered is that of a rectangular three-layer laminate, two plies, modelled as Kirchhoff-Love plates, sandwiching viscoelastic in...