The present study reports the influence of fiber orientation, laminate sequence and fabric type on the inherent nonlinearity of intact carbon fiber/epoxy composites using nonlinear resonant ultrasonic spectroscopy (NRUS) [1-2]. Fiber orientation of the CFRP samples were changed relative to the length of the sample. Since the fundamental flexural mode is excited, the properties of the composite ...

The work aimed to assess the failure progress in a glass fiber-reinforced polymer laminate with a 3D-woven and (as a comparison) plain-woven reinforcement, during static bending, using acoustic emission signals. The innovative method of the separation of the signal coming from the fiber fracture and the one coming from the matrix fracture with the use of the acoustic event's energy as a criteri...

A metaheuristic approach for variable axial composites considering multiobjective optimization is investigated. The proposed methodology based on the combination of three main parts: a defining orientation fibers in laminate, structural analysis program (based Finite Element Method) and an algorithm. It important to highlight that radial basis function (RBF), which describes smooth fiber patter...

in this study, flow characteristics through symmetric stenosis artery are investigated. the shape of eccentricity for stenotic flows is limited by circular-cross sections and plaques are usually assumed as to be oriented concentrically. thegoverningequationsaretheusualnavier-stokesequationsandare numericallysolved by using finite volumemethod in arbitrary orthogonal curvilinear coordinates. in ad...

The paper presents a framework for the detection of curvilinear objects in images. Such objects are challenging to be described by a geometrical model, and although they appear in a number of applications, the problem of detecting curvilinear objects has drawn limited attention. The proposed approach starts with an edge detection algorithm after which the task of object detection becomes a prob...

Equipment and components made of plastics and composites are widely used in highly corrosive environments in the processing industry. Examples are the storage tanks, pumps and pipes for chemical transport and stacks in combustion plants. The demand for reliable nondestructive testing of plastic process equipment has increased significantly in recent years. Glass fiber reinforced plastics (GRP) ...

In this paper, progressive damage and global failure of composite laminates under quasi-static, monotonic loading are investigated using 3D continuum damage mechanics. For this purpose, a finite element program has been developed using an eight-node 2D layered element including layer-wise plate theory. Damage analysis of a single orthotropic layer under various uniform in-plane and transverse l...

Issues related to curvilinear mesh generation starting from a CAD model are addressed. Curvilinear mesh geometry representation in the context of p-version finite elements and its impact on the validity of curvilinear meshes is discussed. A set of meshing tools is described for generation and modification of curved meshes in three-dimensional space. An iterative algorithm for curved meshing of ...

We give results for the approximation of a laminate with varying volume fractions for multi-well energy minimization problems modeling martensitic crystals that can undergo either an orthorhombic to monoclinic or a cubic to tetragonal transformation. We construct energy minimizing sequences of deformations which satisfy the corresponding boundary condition, and we establish a series of error bo...