This paper presents a comparison of numerical methods used to model large scale acoustic coupled fluidstructure interaction (FSI) problems for single and double-walled cylindrical shells. The finite element method (FEM) is used to model the structure while the fast multipole boundary element method (FMBEM) is used to model the fluid domain and both models are coupled on the shared boundary surf...

Abstract Additive manufacturing is now a promising option to obtain porous customized structures at relatively low scales. The capability design with tunable heat transfer performance compared conventional materials, such as open-cell foams, very interesting the user. In this study, we investigated conduction in drilled-hollow-sphere architected foam, inspired by Triply-Periodic Minimal Surface...

This paper presents a finite element based numerical study on controlling the postbuckling behavior of thin-walled cylindrical shells under axial compression. With the increasing interest of various disciplines for harnessing elastic instabilities in materials and mechanical systems, the postbuckling behavior of thin-walled cylindrical shells may have a new role to design materials and structur...

In this paper the effect of random geometric imperfections on the critical load of isotropic, thin-walled, cylindrical shells under axial compression with rectangular cutouts is presented. Second moment characteristics of geometric imperfections are estimated by data of available measurements, a simulation procedure based on the Karhunen-Loéve expansion is applied for generating realizations of...

In this paper the individual and combined effects of random boundary and geometric imperfections on the limit loads of isotropic, thin-walled, cylindrical shells under axial compression are presented. Second moment characteristics of these imperfections are estimated by data of available measurements of imperfections, a simulation procedure based on the Karhunen-Loéve expansion is applied for g...

Cylindrical shells are used in a variety of applications. In some of these applications it is necessary to limit the vibrations of lightly-damped shells by applying a damping treatment that does not significantly increase the weight. This paper explores the use of partial coating of a cylindrical shell with a constrained viscoelastic layer for obtaining optimal damping. The placement of damping...

We investigate the performance of cylindrical luminescent solar concentrators (CLSCs) with near-infrared lead sulfide quantum dots (QDs) in the active region. We fabricate solid and hollow cylinders from a composite of QDs in polymethylmethacrylate, prepared by radical polymerization, and characterize sample homogeneity and optical properties using spectroscopic techniques. We additionally meas...

The elastic buckling of shell structures such as spherical shells subject to external pressure and cylindrical shells loaded in axial compression is highly sensitive to imperfections and often catastrophic. Recent studies of spherical shells have provided accurate quantitative results for the relation between the buckling pressure and the amplitude and shape of geometric imperfections and, addi...