The use of composite laminate materials has increased rapidly in recent years due to their excellent strength to weight ratio and resistance to corrosion. In the construction of marine vessels, stiffened plates are the most commonly used structural elements, forming the deck, bottom hull, side shells and bulkheads. This paper presents the use of a stochastic approach to the design of stiffened ...

The present study deals with the development of a prediction model to investigate impact temperature and moisture on vibration response skew laminated composite sandwich (LCS) plate using artificial neural network (ANN) technique. Firstly, finite element is generated incorporate hygro-elastic thermo-elastic characteristics LCS first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT). Graphite-epoxy laminate...

A higher order displacement based formulation has been developed to investigate the plane strain edge vibrations or end modes in composite laminated sandwich plates. The formulation has been applied as an illustration, to the laminated sandwich plates made up of transversely isotropic laminae with the axes of symmetry lying in the plane of the lamina and core in-between. The results for isotrop...

The effects of adding an extra layer within a sandwich panel and two different core types in top and bottom cores on low velocity impact loadings are studied experimentally in this paper. The panel includes polymer composite laminated sheets for faces and the internal laminated sheet called extra layer sheet, and two types of crushable foams are selected as the core material. Low velocity impac...

Composite sandwich structures are gaining attention due to their inherent properties, such as lightweight, low density, and high strength. The forced vibration response of these was studied experimentally investigate the effects external loads on structures. In this work, four composite were manufactured using carbon fiber, glass fibers, foam tested a specially designed test rig by hitting spec...

In this paper, deformations of a laminated composite plate due to mechanical loads are presented. Third order shear deformation theory of plates, which is categorized in equivalent single layer theories, is used to derive linear dynamic equations of a rectangular multi-layered composite plate. Moreover, derivation of equations for FEM and numerical solutions for displacements and stress distrib...

Auxetic cellular solids in the forms of honeycombs and foams have great potential in a diverse range of applications, including as core material in curved sandwich panel composite components, radome applications, directional pass band filters, adaptive and deployable structures, filters and sieves, seat cushion material, energy absorption components, viscoelastic damping materials and fastening...

In this paper, nonlinear behavior of strengthened steel plate shear walls (SPSWs) by FRP laminates theoretically and numerically has been investigated. In the first part, a new method, “the composite-plate frame Interaction (C-PFI) method”, has been introduced to predict the shear behavior of the composite steel plate shear wall systems (CSPSWs). In the second part, several models of one-story ...

Material experts are striving to use natural resources as skin and core in composite sandwiches achieve light weight, biodegradability, cost benefits. This paper reports one such newly developed green sandwich its biodegradable behavior. The of flax fiber agglomerated cork respectively. is manufactured by vacuum bagging technique order get higher volume fraction fiber. biodegradability testing ...