In ship building, line-heating is widely employed as an effective method to form steel plate with complex 3-dimensional carved geometries. However the plate bending by line heating is strongly dependent on skills. To ...

Given a parametrised measure and a family of continuous functions (<pn), we construct a sequence of functions (uk) such that, as fc-> co, the functions fn(uk) converge to the corresponding moments of the measure, in the ...

A new n-noded polygonal plate element is proposed for the analysis of plate structures comprising of thin and thick members. The formulation is based on the discrete Kirchhoff Mindlin theory. On each side of the polygonal ...

In the present study, a variational Ritz approach for vibration analysis of thick arbitrarily quadrilateral laminated plates, based on the trigonometric shear deformation theory (TSDT) is developed. In this theory, shear ...

In this paper, the plate is assumed as a regular prism of arbitrary aspect ratio and thickness with four consecutive faces clamped. By increasing the thickness from zero, one may model the thin, moderately thick and thick ...

This article presents the formulation of an enriched macro finite element based on the trigonometric shear deformation theory for the static analysis of symmetrically laminated composite plates. Shear correction factor is ...

Dynamic stress analysis of laminated composites plates represents a relevant task in designing of aerospace, shipbuilding and automotive components where impulsive loads can lead to sudden structural failure. The mechanical ...

The development, computational implementation and application of polynomially-enriched plate macro-element are presented in this work. This macro-element has been formulated by the authors for thin isotropic plates using ...