In this study the macroscopic analysis proposed by Schapery has been applied to model the non-linear viscoelastic and viscoplastic behaviour of polyester fibres. First, a special non-contact extensometry method has been developed in order to measure the fibre response without affecting the behaviour of these extremely anisotropic fibres. An accelerated identification method has then been develo...

Large balloon structures are made of thin anisotropic polymeric film that shows considerable time-dependent material behaviour. While the material has been fully characterised and a detailed time-dependent material description by means of a nonlinear viscoelastic Schapery material model is available, there is no suitable numerical implementation for finite element analysis. This paper presents ...

The thin film used for the NASA Ultra Long Duration Balloons (ULDB) shows considerable time-dependent behaviour. Furthermore, experiments on scaled ULDB balloons have revealed that wrinkles are present over a wide range of pressures. A numerical model has been developed describing the nonlinear anisotropic viscoelastic material behaviour by means of a Schapery-type model and this model has been...

This paper presents comprehensive experimental and numerical studies on the face-on and edge-on impact behavior of composite laminates. Experimental work is focused on finding the impact energy limits for barely visible impact damage (BVID) when a laminated composite plate is impacted either on its face or an edge. High-fidelity finite element analysis (FEA) model utilizing Enhanced Schapery th...

The aim of the present paper is to introduce the concept of joint common limit range property ((JCLR) property) for single-valued and set-valued maps in non-Archimedean fuzzy metric spaces. We also list some examples to show the difference between (CLR) property and (JCLR) property. Further, we establish common fixed point theorems using implicit relation with integral contractive condition. Se...

We present some fixed point results for a single mapping and a pair of compatible mappings via auxiliary functions which satisfy a generalized weakly contractive condition in partially ordered complete $G$-metric spaces. Some examples are furnished to illustrate the useability of our main results. At the end, an application is presented to the study of exi...