Nowadays, functionally graded materials (FGM) are widely used in many industrial, aerospace and military fields. On the other hand, the interest in the use of shrink-fitted assemblies is increasing for designing composite tubes, high-pressure vessels, rectors and tanks. Although extensive researches exist on thick-walled cylindrical shells, not many researches have been done on shrink-fitted th...

Displacement-based methods are recognized as appropriate approaches to reach the goals of performance-based seismic design method. In the direct displacement-based seismic design method, the seismic yield displacement is applied as one of the important design parameters. In this paper, a new relation is suggested to determine the lateral displacement pattern at first yielding of eccentrically b...

In this study, the buckling and free vibration of Timoshenko beams resting on variable elastic foundation analyzed by means of a new finite element formulation. The Winkler model has been applied for elastic foundation. A two-node element with four degrees of freedom is suggested for finite element formulation. Displacement and rotational fields are approximated by cubic and quadratic polynomia...

This paper concernes eigenvalue computations with displacement structured matrices, for example, Toeplitz or Toeplitz-plus-Hankel. A technique using isospectral flows is introduced. The flow is enforced to preserve the displacement structure of the originary matrix by means of a suitable constraint added in its formulation. In order to fulfil the constraint, the numerical integration of the flo...

in this paper, the finite element analysis of stability problem of vehicle composite drive shafts subjected to torsional loading is studied. first, using the minimum total potential energy principle, the governing equations are derived and then they are solved by finite element method. the initial geometrical imperfection which is usually in the form of radial displacement, is taken into consid...

stretching process of sheet metals in both cases of axisymmetric and non-axisymmetric is analyzed. a rigid-plastic, normal anisotrop material is assumed and large strain formulation is applied. triangular elements are used and stiffness equations of elements are obtained from virtual work principle. these nonlinear equations are linearized by newton-raphsons method and are solved by gaussian el...

This paper presents three beam Finite Element (FE) formulations developed for the analysis of thin-walled structures. These account out-of-plane cross-section warping by removing classical rigid body hypothesis and capture interaction axial/bending stress components with shear torsion. The FE models rely on different kinematic assumptions to describe deformations. Indeed, displacement field is ...

Using the Reciprocal Theorem and the principle of superposition, this dissertation examines three procedures for obtaining the impedance functions and driving force vectors necessary for a soil-structure interaction analysis. The first procedure employs a volume integral of body forces and the displacement Green’s Functions to obtain the frequency dependent force-displacement relationship (impe...

The curved-beam finite element formulation by trigonometric function for curvature is presented. Instead of displacement function, trigonometric function is introduced for curvature to avoid the shear and membrane locking phenomena. Element formulation is carried out in polar coordinates. The element with three nodal parameters is chosen on curvature. Then, curvature field in the element is int...