A numerically efficient approach for the prediction of consecutive growth of delaminations with curved fronts is developed. The approach is based on the assumption that the delamination grows from its current front to a predefined advanced front and that the delamination front remains smooth during the entire growth process. For computation of the load required to propagate the delamination the...

This paper presents a numerical model for damage identification of composite structures. The model is based on the orthogonality conditions sensitivities of the damaged and undamaged structures mode shapes and relies on a discretisation by finite elements. The damage is directly related to the stiffness reduction of the damaged element. A study on the use of eigenvector sensitivities for damage...

The coupling effects between the mechanical and electric properties of piezoelectric materials have drawn significant attention for their potential applications as sensors and actuators. In this investigation, two piezoelectric actuators are symmetrically surface bonded on a cross-ply composite laminate. Electric voltages with the same amplitude and opposite sign are applied to the two symmetri...

A full-thickness chest wall resection requires subsequent chest wall reconstruction. A chest wall resection and reconstruction was performed using a transverse rectus abdominis myocutaneous (TRAM) flap, together with polypropylene mesh (Marlex mesh) and stainless steel mesh (SSM). A 71-year-old man was diagnosed as having recurrent lung cancer in the chest wall, and underwent surgical resection...

An exact solution is obtained for the three-dimensional deformations of simply supported laminated rectangular thick plates with embedded shear mode piezoelectric actuators, subjected to mechanical and electrical loading on the upper and lower surfaces. Each layer of the laminate is made of either an orthotropic elastic material or a piezoelectric material whose poling direction lies in the pla...

Neogene sedimentary rocks are exposed in the Chittagong Tripura Folded Belt (CTFB) Region Bengal Basin. Sitapahar anticline is situated middle part of CTFB Region. In this structure, eleven litho-facies have been identified fluvial, overbank, shallow marine, deltaic, and deep marine depositional environments. Surma Group composed Bhuban Boka Bil formation during Miocene time was deposited envir...

The plate-laminated waveguide slot array antenna is a high-efficiency and wide-band antenna in the millimeterwave band. However, in the conventional corporate-feed circuit, the number of radiating elements is limited to be a power of two by using a cascade of T-junctions. In this paper, we propose the corporate-feed with a cross junction and an asymmetric Tjunction for 12×16 elements. The bandw...

plate model, were calculated by the theory of statically indeterminate beam and the finite element method. The factors that have the greatest effect on thermal residual stress in the veneer are coefficient of thermal expansion, modulus of elasticity and thickness of the layers. The relation between these factors and thermal residual stress after firing were studied. The effect of physical and m...

The study of magnetostrictive material in laminated plate under thermal vibration is calculated by using the generalized differential quadrature (GDQ) method. The YNS shear deformation effect is included in the time dependent of displacement field. In the thermoelastic stress-strain relations that containing the linear temperature rise and the magnetostrictive coupling terms with velocity feedb...

In this paper, we present a technique for the deposition of inks, toners, organic polymers, fuels, small solid particles, biological and chemical fluids, using a fluid ejector. The ejector design is based on a flextensional transducer that excites the axisymmetric resonant modes of a clamped circular plate. It is constructed by depositing a thin piezoelectric annular plate onto a thin, edge cla...