This paper describes the application of refined plate theory to investigate free vibration and buckling analyses of functionally graded nanocomposite plates reinforced by aggregated carbon nanotube (CNT). The refined shear deformation plate theory (RSDT) uses four independent unknowns and accounts for a quadratic variation of the transverse shear strains across the thickness, satisfying the zer...

Asymptote is widely used in astronomy, mechanics, architecture and relevant subjects. In this paper, by analyzing the Frenet frame and the Darboux frame of a curve on the surface, the necessary and sufficient conditions for a quadrilateral boundary being asymptotic of a surface are derived. This quadrilateral is called asymptotic quadrilateral. Given corner data including positions, tangents an...

This paper proposes an automated quadrilateral meshing technique based on the conversion of triangular meshes. Given a triangular mesh and a vector eld representing the desired directionality of quadrilateral elements, our new approach generates a well-shaped and well-aligned quadrilateral mesh. In the approach, the values of three scalar functions are rst calculated for each pair of adjacent t...

An automatic adaptive quadrilateral mesh conversion scheme for the generation of adaptive refinement meshes over analytical curved surfaces is proposed. The starting point of the quadrilateral mesh generator is a background triangular mesh of the curved surface. By a carefully controlled process to merge two triangles at a time the triangular mesh can be completely converted to quadrilaterals. ...

We prove five necessary and sufficient conditions for a convex quadrilateral to have an excircle and compare them to similar conditions for a quadrilateral to have an incircle.

The main aim of this paper is to investigate bending behavior in sandwich plates with functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced composite (FG-CNTRC) face sheets with considering the effects of carbon nanotube (CNT) aggregation. The sandwich plates are assumed resting on Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundation and a mesh-free method based on first order shear deformation theory (FSDT) is devel...

This paper presents a computational method for quadrilateral meshing of a thin, or narrow, two-dimensional domain for finite element analysis. The proposed method creates a well-shaped single-layered, multi-layered, or partially multi-layered quadrilateral mesh. Element sizes can be uniform or graded. A high quality, layered quadrilateral mesh is often required for finite element analysis of a ...

In this study, the repairability of oval notched 304 austenitic stainless steel plate with carbon/epoxy composite patch was experimentally investigated. context, 250x40 mm test specimens were cut from 2 thick and in CNC machine, notches 20x4 sized opened three diffrent directions on their centers. Carbon fiber reinforced patches then prepared to these notches. The composites used produced by ap...