There are many technical applications in the field of lightweight construction as, for example,
in aerospace engineering, where stress concentration phenomena play an important role in …

Most engineering technologies, gadgets, and systems have been developed around the use
of sophisticated materials. Composite laminates have found widespread application in …

Polyurea coating (PC) is a promising surface treatment technology for improving structural
static and dynamic mechanical properties in a thermal environment. However, rare studies …

An elasticity formulation for finite general cross-ply (symmetric and unsymmetric) laminates
subjected to extension and/or a layerwise temperature distribution is developed. It is shown …

The objective of the current work is to perform a failure evaluation of fiber composite
structures based on failure indices computed using the Hashin 3D failure criterion. The …

Current research issues in the development of efficient analysis models and their efficient
numerical implementation for smart piezoelectric laminated structures are discussed in this …

Recently, the usage of smart composite structures has grown dramatically in various real-life
applications because of their excellent actuation and self-sensing capabilities. The presence …

This work reveals the potential of mechanics of structure genome (MSG) for the free-edge
stress analysis of composite laminates. First, the cross-sectional analysis specialized from …

In this paper, a multi-particle finite element [Nguyen VT, Caron JF. A new finite element for
free edge effect analysis in laminated composites. Comput Struct, accepted for publication] …

A variational model is developed to exactly determine both stress and displacement fields at
free edges of general symmetric composite laminate strips under thermomechanical loads …