Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures: Volume 9 Issue 3

Analysis of factors influencing delamination in milling process of glass fibre reinforced plastic (GFRP) composite materials

Jenarthanan Mugundhu, R. Jeyapaul, Naresh Neeli

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical model for delamination through response surface methodology (RSM) and analyse the influences of the entire individual input…

Modeling and optimization of flux cored arc welding by genetic algorithm and simulated annealing algorithm

D. Katherasan, Jiju V. Elias, P. Sathiya, A. Noorul Haq

The purpose of this study is to optimize the process parameters (wire feed rate (F), voltage (V), welding speed (S) and torch angle (A)) in order to obtain the optimum bead…

Influence of anisotropy on creep in an anisotropic composite rotating disc with nonlinearly varying thickness

Vandana Gupta, S.B. Singh

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effect of anisotropy in terms of a single parameter indicating strengthening or weakening in the tangential direction in composite…

Modeling damage mechanics of railway tracks to evolve control strategies for derailment prevention

Upamanyu Banerjee

With an eye to prevent derailment of high-speed trains, vis-à-vis unwarranted loss of lives and property, this paper aims to develop a formalism of designing a suitable control…

Investigation on corrosion behaviors of aluminum alloy in NaCl and EXCO solution

Sheng Xu, Hao Wei Wang, Xing Zhang, Weiping He

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the corrosion behaviors of 2A12 aluminum alloy in NaCl and EXCO solution, and establish the relationship between the corrosion depth…

Dimensional analysis of impulse loading resulting from detonation of shallow-buried charges

Mica Grujicic, Patrick Glomski, Bryan Cheeseman

Development of military vehicles capable of surviving shallow-buried explosive blast is seldom done using full-scale prototype testing because of the associated prohibitively high…

Effects of geometric and material properties on electrical power harvested from a bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam

Nataraj Chandrasekharan, Jaehyung Ju, Lonny Thompson

A three-dimensional finite element (FE) model is developed to design a vibrating bimorph piezoelectric cantilever beam with lead zirconate titanate (PZT-5H) for energy harvesting…

Effect of hydrostatic initial stress on a fiber-reinforced thermoelastic medium with fractional derivative heat transfer

Mohamed Ibrahim Othman, Samia M. Said, N. Sarker

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the influences of fractional order, hydrostatic initial stress and gravity field on the plane waves in a linearly fiber-reinforced…