Anisotropic materials form inside living tissue and are widely applied in engineered structures, where sophisticated structural and functional design principles are essential to employing these materials. This paper presents a candidate laminated open-cell framework, which is an anisotropic material that shows remarkable mechanical performance. Using additive manufacturing, artificial framework...

Bending strength and elasticity modulus of composite, with and without embedded optical fibers, were experimentally studied. Two kinds of laminates, which were denoted as group 1 and group 2, were fabricated from an orthogonal woven glass/epoxy prepreg. Since the normal stress value becomes the biggest at the surface of a beam, the optical fibers were embedded at the outmost layer and were all ...

For the development of force sensors, manufactured in LTCC (low temperature co-fired ceramics) technology for musical wind instruments, the mechanical properties of laminated LTCC tapes were characterized. Since one layer of LTCC tape is not always fulfilling the requirements of the force sensor’s loading capacity, the influence of lamination parameters for different number of layers were inves...

Despite the extensive use of thin-walled structures, studies on their behaviours when exposed to extreme thermal environment are relatively scarce. Therefore, this paper aims present buckling analysis composite I-beams under thermo-mechanical loads. The effects investigated for case studied beams undergoing a uniform temperature rise through thickness. theory is based first-order shear deformat...