...Bjørn Håkon Frodal; Lars Lodgaard; Yngve Langsrud; Tore Børvik; Odd Sture Hopperstad The bendability of extruded profiles of an age hardenable aluminum alloy is investigated using mechanical tests on flat tensile specimens and bending specimens. Two profile geometries are considered, where...

...Bo-Hua Sun; Wen Dang; Xiao-Lin Guo In this paper, we consider the interlayer slidable friction structures on soft-substrate as the hardcover book-like-laminated-plates with internal friction on the Winkler foundation. For a quasi-static problem, a detailed analysis of the bending response...

... recovers the model for Kirchhoff plates of cubic flexoelectric–elastic materials as a special case when the shell radius tends to infinity. To illustrate the new shell model, static bending, free vibration, and forced vibration problems of a simply supported axisymmetric circular cylindrical shell...

... Beams With Piezoelectric Extension-Bending and Shear Actuators ,” Smart Mater. Struct. , 11 ( 1 ), p. 63 . 10.1088/0964-1726/11/1/307 [26] Vasques , C. , and Rodrigues , J. D. , 2006 , “ Active Vibration Control of Smart Piezoelectric Beams: Comparison of Classical and Optimal...

... potential function. The constants for ten fcc metals are computed and tabulized. Moreover, the exact closed-form solution of the bending of a nano-size Bernoulli-Euler beam in second strain gradient elasticity is provided; the appearance of the additional constants in the corresponding formulations, through...

...E. Suhir A die-carrier assembly, subjected to the external tensile forces and bending moments applied to the flexible carrier is considered. The objective of the analysis is to develop a simple, easy-to-use, and physically meaningful predictive analytical (“mathematical”) model aimed...

...-deflection behavior involves both bending and torsional elastoplastic deformations of the pipe, phenomena which have not been previously studied in the context of the dynamic problem of pipe whip. Initially, neglecting ovalization and local collapse (kinking), the bent pipe is modeled as a beam, using...

...L. St-Pierre; N. A. Fleck; V. S. Deshpande Stainless steel sandwich beams with a corrugated core or a Y-frame core have been tested in three-point bending and the role of the face-sheets has been assessed by considering beams with (i) front-and-back faces present, and (ii) front face present...

...) bending clay filled polymers glass graphite high-pressure effects nanocomposites nanoparticles naval engineering particle reinforced composites resins ships shock tubes shock wave effects closed-form shock tube composite nanoreinforcement Many researchers focus on finding...

... wound shells of revolution is particularly analyzed. Results show that when the preset friction is increased natural frequencies of higher circumferential vibration modes also increase irrespective of the initial winding angle, and the circumferential bending stiffness stands out as the dominant...

... bending. The significant extensions made to the method in this study are (1) the application to the 3D elasticity problem involving an in-plane direction and a thickness direction instead of both in-plane directions in 2D elasticity problems, (2) the treatment of the nonhomogeneous boundary conditions...

...W. D. Zhu; H. Ren; C. Xiao A nonlinear, planar model of a slack cable with bending stiffness and arbitrarily moving ends is developed. The model uses the slope angle of the centroid line of the cable to describe the motion of the cable, and the resulting integropartial differential equation...

... deflections within the gap and one with large deflections within the gap. The results for a given gap size depend on the length, weight per unit length, and bending stiffness of the strip, and the coefficient of friction between the strip and the internal support. The case of a frictionless support is also...

...-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT). This model allows extension and twist, as well as shear and bending (in two directions) of a SWNT. This present paper proposes a finite element method (FEM) implementation of the above mentioned Cosserat rod model for a SWNT, subjected, in general, to axial and transverse...

... beams in three-point bending: core shear, face microbuckling, face wrinkling, and indentation. Selected geometries of sandwich beams were tested to illustrate these collapse modes, with good agreement between analytic predictions and measurements of the failure load. Finite element (FE) simulations...

.... The critical overhang length depends on (a) the length, weight per unit length, and bending stiffness of the strip, (b) the coefficients of friction (CoFs) between the strip and both the surface and its edge, and (c) the inclination of the surface. The strip is modeled as an inextensible elastica. A shooting...

... that efficiently handles eventual uncertainties involved in the application of mechanical loadings. Second, piezoelectric bending moments are applied in order to avoid or ameliorate the undesirable effects of initial imperfections. An actuation strategy, where the piezoelectric membrane forces and bending moments...

... to solve analytically three classical beam bending problems to which the fourth-order beam theory of Timoshenko has created some questions on the boundary conditions. The present solutions of these examples agree well with the elasticity solutions, and in particular they also show that the present sixth...

.... The finite element governing equations have been derived in the framework of the Carrera unified formulation (CUF). The effectiveness of each expansion term, that is, of each displacement variable, has been established numerically considering various problems (traction, bending, and torsion), several beam...

...M. Y. He; J. W. Hutchinson; A. G. Evans A stretch/bend method for the in situ measurement of the delamination toughness of coatings attached to substrates is described. A beam theory analysis is presented that illustrates the main features of the test. The analysis is general and allows...