Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures: Volume 10 Issue 4

All-atom molecular-level computational simulations of planar longitudinal shockwave interactions with polyurea, soda-lime glass and polyurea/glass interfaces

Mica Grujicic, Ramin Yavari, Jennifer Snipes, S. Ramaswami, Roshdy Barsoum

The purpose of this paper is to study the mechanical response of polyurea, soda-lime glass (glass, for short), polyurea/glass/polyurea and glass/polyurea/glass sandwich structures…

Analysis of Fe78Si9B13 (%at.) ribbons of noncommercial scrap materials produced by melt spinning equipment

Marcelo R. Pagnola, Mariano Malmoria, Marcelo Barone, Hugo Sirkin

The purpose of this paper is to present a ribbons production route of composition Fe₇₈Si₉B₁₃ (%at.) using low cost noncommercial scrap materials to obtain usable magnetic cores by…

Continuum description of damage and failure of composite laminates based on viscous regularization

ShiYang Zhao, Pu Xue

– The purpose of the paper is to improve the calculability of a continuum damage failure model of composite laminates based on Tsai-Wu criteria.

Stress wave analysis of thermo-piezoelectric solid bar of polygonal cross-sections immersed in fluid

Palaniyandi Ponnusamy

The purpose of this paper is to study the problem of wave propagation in an infinite, homogeneous, transversely isotropic thermo-piezoelectric solid bar of polygonal (triangle…

Plane wave propagation in an anisotropic dual-phase-lag thermoelastic diffusion medium

Rajneesh Kumar, Vandana Gupta

The purpose of this paper is to depict the effect of thermal and diffusion phase-lags on plane waves propagating in thermoelastic diffusion medium with different material…

Damage alarming analysis for ancient wood structures based on wavelet packet energy spectrum

Xin Wang, Wei Bing Hu, Zhao Bo Meng

The purpose of this paper is to establish the damage alarming indexes for ancient wood structures and study the damage sensitivity and noise robustness of these indexes under…

Optimal control during drilling in GFRP composite laminates

Amrinder Pal Singh, Manu Sharma, Inderdeep Singh

Damage due to delamination is an important issue during drilling in polymer-matrix composites (PMCs). It depends on thrust force and torque which are functions of feed rate…

Process modeling, joint-property characterization and construction of joint connectors for mechanical fastening by self-piercing riveting

Mica Grujicic, Jennifer Snipes, S. Ramaswami, Fadi Abu-Farha

The purpose of this paper is to propose a computational approach in order to help establish the effect of various self-piercing rivet (SPR) process and material parameters on the…