Advances in manufacturing techniques have allowed more flexibility to the design and new possibilities to apply composites materials in lightweight structures. Novel techniques such as the automated fiber placement allow ...

This paper addresses the thermal buckling behavior of tanks having a fixed roof, as employed to store fuel in the oil industry. The study is performed based on finite element analyses of the shell, including linear analysis, ...

In this paper, a theoretical model is developed for the dynamic analysis of composite thin-walled beams with open or closed cross-sections. The present model incorporates, in a full form, the shear flexibility (bending and ...

In this research, an improved first order formulation is presented to study the critical buckling load in functionally graded beams. The formulation has five independent variables in comparison with the Timoshenko theory ...

We present a novel meshfree technique for animating free surface viscous liquids with jet buckling effects, such as coiling and folding. Our technique is based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) fluids and allows ...

In this paper, we introduce a novel meshfree framework for animating free surface viscous liquids with jet buckling effects, such as coiling and folding. Our method is based on Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) fluids ...

The consideration of nonlinearities in mechanical structures is a question of high importance because several common features as joints, large displacements and backlash may give rise to these kinds of phenomena. However, ...