The conical-cylindrical shell is prone to stress concentration in the convex cone position under action of deep-sea pressures. This results unidirectional or bidirectional positive tensile stresses on surfaces shell. a large, welded structure. Welding residual was generated at cone-column joint position, resulting high-stress this location. Under both welding and seawater pressure, cracks easil...

Conventional sensors, such as proximeters and accelerometers, are add-on devices usually adding additional weights to structures and machines. Health monitoring of flexible structures by electroactive smart materials has been investigated over the years. Thin-film piezoelectric material, e.g. polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) polymeric material, is a lightweight and dynamic sensitive material appe...

The objective of this study is to introduce a modified incremental technique that leads to improved marginal adaptation and to develop a mathematical model that explains the results obtained. The technique proposed is a two-step incremental technique that reduces volume of a resin that is polymerized at each step and eliminates the central point in resin, so that the stresses are additionally r...

Hollow cylindrical and truncated conical shells depict enhanced torsional shear resistance compared to beams plates are ubiquitously used in structures aeronautics, submarines, wind turbines, pressure vessels, transmission pylons. Upon extensive localised blast, these elements undergo local global deformation failure. The detrimental damage the shell depends on stand-off charge mass is proporti...

Fukui’s conical cup test is the one of the formability characteristics evaluation for various sheet metals. The formability characteristics such as diametrical ratio, maximum drawing load, depth of cup up to fracture are to be evaluated. This test is related to drawing test. This test can be performed by using parameters such as friction, process parameters and without blank holder. In fukui’s ...

Heat transfer characteristics for a laminar fully developed flow in an internally corrugated circular tube with axially uniform heat flux with peripherally uniform temperature are obtained using the method of fundamental solution and the radial basis functions. The internal shape of the tube is modelled by cosine function. The nonlinear governing equation of temperature field problem was conver...

Recently researchers have developed soft actuators capable of morphing into complex shapes taking inspiration from nature. In this paper, we a splay-nematic liquid crystal polymer network tapered actuator that can morph flat film to cone, mimicking the blooming single petal Calla Lily flower. We demonstrated formation conical tubes through finite element simulations and experiments. The influen...