Membranes enclosing capsules and biological cells undergo periodic compression and stretching due to an imparted hydrodynamic traction as they rotate in a shear flow. Compression may cause transient or permanent buckling manifested by the onset of wrinkled shapes. To study the effect of pre-compression and pre-stretching on the critical conditions for buckling, the response of an elastic circul...

We study the thermal buckling behavior of cylindrical shells reinforced with Functionally Graded (FG) wavy Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs), stiffened by stringers and rings, and subjected to a thermal loading. The equilibrium equations of the problem are built according to the Third-order Shear Deformation Theory (TSDT), whereas the stiffeners are modeled as Euler Bernoulli beams. Different types of FG...

The geometry of mesoscopic single and multiple layer folds in rhyolitic obsidian ̄ows is investigated. Folds are composed of obsidian embedded in a matrix of pumice. Folds form by buckling processes as indicated by discontinuous deformation between obsidian and pumice layers and by the geometries of wavetrains. Buckling occurs through a continuum of styles controlled largely by the thickness ra...

Folding 2D sheets into desired 3D structures is a promising fabrication technique that can find a wide range of applications. Compressive buckling provides an attractive strategy to actuate the folding and can be applied to a broad range of materials. Here a new and simple method is reported to achieve controlled compressive buckling, which is actuated by a heat shrinkable polymer sheet. The bu...

A series of tests on cold-formed steel (CFS) wall plate system subjected to uplift force at the mid span of the wall plate is presented. The aim of the study was to study the behaviour and identify the modes of failure of CFS wall plate system. Two parameters were considered in these studies: 1) different dimension of U-bracket at the supports and 2) different sizes of lipped Cchannel. The lipp...

The recent observation of high flexibility in buckled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) contradicts the pre-existing belief about BN nanotube brittleness due to the partially ionic character of bonding between the B and N atoms. However, the underlying mechanisms and relationships within the nanotube remained unexplored. This study reports for the first time the buckling mechanism in multi-walled...

The offshore wind industry is growing at high pace and is already one of the major renewable energy sources in Europe. To support this growth, costs must be further decreased, amongst others by efficiently designing the support structure of the offshore wind turbines. This requires accurate prediction of environmental loading such as dynamic ice-structure interaction. From industry practice it ...

This paper has investigated the effect of hole shape, hole size and hole position on elastic buckling of square perforated plates by using the finite element method. According to the effect law of these three geometric factors on buckling bearing capacity, buckling coefficient was obtained by data fitting. The results show that: The plate with circular perforation has the greatest buckling bear...

Initial results of an investigation towards finding an efficient non-cylindrical fuselage configuration for a conceptual blended-wing-body flight vehicle were presented. A simplified 2-D beam column analysis and optimization was performed first. Then a set of detailed finite element models of deep sandwich panel and ribbed shell construction concepts were analyzed and optimized. Generally these...