the present paper investigates the advantages of a new class of composite grid structures over conventional grids. thus far, a known grid structure such as orthogrid or isogrid has been used as an orthotropic layer with at most in-plane anisotropy. the present laminated grid is composed of various numbers of thin composite grid layers. the stiffness of the structure can be adjusted by choosing ...

The present paper investigates the advantages of a new class of composite grid structures over conventional grids. Thus far, a known grid structure such as orthogrid or isogrid has been used as an orthotropic layer with at most in-plane anisotropy. The present laminated grid is composed of various numbers of thin composite grid layers. The stiffness of the structure can be adjusted by choosing ...

This research presents the modeling and analysis for the buckling and postbuckling behavior of sandwich plates under thermal and mechanical loads. The lay-up configurations of plates are laminated composite with concentric stiffener and surface mounted piezoelectric actuators. The plates are in contact with a three-parameter elastic foundation including softening and/or hardening nonlinearity. ...

The size of the LCL filter can be decreased significantly using higher switching frequencies enabled by next generation semiconductors. This paper studies the effects of the switching frequency of a grid converter on the LCL filter design. The goal in the design is to minimize the stored energy of the magnetic components. The core material of the converter-side inductor is selected based on the...

We consider the possibility of passing high-frequency signals past power transformers forming part of an electrical grid. We first model a transformer, including its laminated core, to obtain asymptotic behaviour of currents and voltages in the secondary circuit. Having got this we are able to determine the effects of different by-pass mechanisms which might be tried to get the high-frequency s...

At this stage a substantial body of literature exists for shape optimization involving isotropic materials. The reader is referred to the articles of Haug [1] and Haftka and Grandhi [2] for overviews of the material. One approach to the problem is analytical. Calculus of variation techniques are employed to derive explicit optimality conditions. Choi and Haug [3], Dems and Mroz [4], and Banichu...

References 11–21 lued structural members are manufactured in a variety of configurations. Structural composite lumber (SCL) products consist of small pieces of wood glued together into sizes common for solid-sawn lumber. Glued-laminated timber (glulam) is an engineered stress-rated product that consists of two or more layers of lumber in which the grain of all layers is oriented parallel to the...

Abstract. It is known that the i-th order laminated microstructures can be resolved by the k-th order rank-one convex envelopes with k ≥ i. So the requirement of establishing an efficient numerical scheme for the computation of the finite order rank-one convex envelopes arises. In this paper, we develop an iterative scheme for such a purpose. The 1-st order rank-one convex envelope R1f is appro...

New spherical codes called laminated spherical codes are constructed in dimensions 2–49 using a technique similar to the construction of laminated lattices. Each spherical code is recursively constructed from existing spherical codes in one lower dimension. Laminated spherical codes outperform the best known spherical codes in the minimum distance sense for many code sizes. The density of a lam...