Multidiscipline Modeling in Materials and Structures: Volume 12 Issue 1

Design optimization of a mine-blast-venting solution for protection of light-tactical-vehicle subjected to shallow-buried underbody mine detonation

M. Grujicic, R. Yavari, J. S. Snipes, S. Ramaswami

The purpose of this paper is computer-aided engineering analysis of the recently proposed side-vent-channel concept for mitigation of the blast-loads resulting from a…

Experimental and computational investigations of the potential improvement in helmet blast-protection through the use of a polyurea-based external coating

M. Grujicic, S. Ramaswami, J. S. Snipes, R. Yavari, P. Dudt

The design of the Advanced Combat Helmet (ACH) currently in use was optimized by its designers in order to attain maximum protection against ballistic impacts (fragments…

A new method for structural non-probabilistic reliability analysis based on interval analysis

Xing-wang Gou, Ai-jun Li, La-quan Luo, Chang-qing Wang

– The purpose of this paper is to propose a robust reliability index to characterize the structural safety degree.

Non-linear delamination fracture analysis by using power-law hardening

Victor Iliev Rizov

The purpose of this paper is to perform a theoretical analysis of non-linear delamination fracture in cantilever beam opened notch (CBON) configuration. It is assumed that the…

Analysis of plane waves in anisotropic piezothermoelastic diffusive medium

Rajneesh Kumar, Poonam Sharma

– The purpose of this paper is to study the propagation of harmonic plane waves in a homogeneous anisotropic piezothermoelastic diffusive medium.

Macroscopic fracture behavior of nickel foam under tension

Q.C. Yang, M.J. Zhang, P. S. Liu

The samples of nickel foam with porosity of about 88 percent were uniaxially tensioned at room temperature, and the phenomena of tensile fracture were compared with that from the…

Temperature effects in the analysis of electromechanical impedance by using spectral element method

Guidong Xu, Baiqiang Xu, Chenguang Xu, Ying Luo

The purpose of this paper is to develop a spectral element modeling to predict electromechanical admittance in the surface-bonded piezoelectric wafer and beam structure…

Interactions due to hall current and rotation in a magneto-micropolar fractional order thermoelastic half-space subjected to ramp-type heating

Rajneesh Kumar, Kulwinder Singh, Devinder Pathania

The purpose of this paper is to investigate a two dimensional problem in magneto-micropolar thermoelastic half-space with fractional order derivative in the presence of combined…

Experiment-based validation and uncertainty quantification of coupled multi-scale plasticity models

Garrison Stevens, Sez Atamturktur, Ricardo Lebensohn, George Kaschner

Highly anisotropic zirconium is a material used in the cladding of nuclear fuel rods, ensuring containment of the radioactive material within. The complex material structure of…

Experimental investigation of machinability characteristics in Al-TiB2 metal matrix composite (MMC) based on the Taguchi method with fuzzy logics

M.P. Jenarthanan, A. Ram Prakash, R. Jeyapaul

The purpose of this paper is to develop a mathematical model for metal removal rate and surface roughness through Taguchi method and analyse the influence of the individual input…

Effect of irregularity and anisotropy on the dynamic response due to a shear load moving on an irregular orthotropic half-space under influence of gravity

Abhishek K. Singh, Anirban Lakshman, Amares Chattopadhyay

The response of moving load over a surface is a subject of investigation because of its possible applications in determining the strength of a structure. Recently, with the…