Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures: Volume 11 Issue 1

Elastic moduli of boron nitride, aluminium nitride and gallium nitride nanotubes using second generation reactive empirical bond order potential

Dinesh Kumar, Veena Verma, Keya Dharamvir, H S Bhatti

– The purpose of this paper is to study elastic properties of III-V nitride nanotubes (NNTs) using second generation (REBO) potential.

A novel modal calculation method of 1-D phononic crystal band gap

Lei Li, Qing Liu

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a modal method to calculate the band gaps of one-dimensional (1D) phononic crystals.

Influence of z/w relation in Chill Block Melt Spinning (CBMS) process and analysis of thickness in ribbons

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

The purpose of this paper is to present an analysis over own and other authors data related to the process of Chill Block Melt Spinning (CBMS) and propose a model of analysis for…

Parameters optimization in FSW of polypropylene based on RSM

K Panneerselvam, Kasirajan Lenin

The purpose of this paper is to weld polypropylene (PP) material by friction stir welding (FSW) process. The input process parameters considered were: tool pin profile, feed rate…

Multi-physics modeling and simulations of reactive melt infiltration process used in fabrication of ceramic-matrix composites (CMCs)

Mica Grujicic, Rohan Galgalikar, S. Ramaswami, Jennifer Snipes, Ramin Yavari, Rajendra K. Bordia

A multi-physics process model is developed to analyze reactive melt infiltration (RMI) fabrication of ceramic-matrix composite (CMC) materials and components. The paper aims to…

Analysis of mixed-mode II/III fracture in sandwich beams

Victor Rizov

The purpose of this paper is to study theoretically the ability of the prestressed foam core composite sandwich Split Cantilever Beam (SCB) for generating mixed-mode II/III crack…

The kinetics of isothermal and non-isothermal recovery within cold-rolled aluminum alloy

Soheila Shabaniverki, Siamak Serajzadeh

– The purpose of this paper is to study the kinetics of static recovery in cold-rolled aluminum alloy under different heating rates.

Analysis and optimisation of machinability behavior of GFRP composites using fuzzy logic

Jenarthanan Poornachary Mugundhu, Suresh Subramanian, Ajay Subramanian

Glass fibre reinforced plastics (GFRP) contain two phases of materials with drastically distinguished mechanical and thermal properties, which brings in complicated interactions…

Analysis of gravity and non-homogeneity on Rayleigh wave in anisotropic elastic-viscoelastic half space of higher order

Rajneesh Kakar

The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the propagation of Rayleigh waves in an anisotropic inhomogeneous layer placed over an isotropic gravitational viscoelastic half space…