Due to considerable stored energy in surfaces of nano-scales in comparison with the stored energy in their bulk, considering the surface energy is necessary for the analysis of various behaviors of nano-scales for more precise design and manufacturing. In this article, the longitudinal dynamic behavior of nanobars in the presence of the surface energy parameters is studied. To this end, the lon...

Delamination fracture of a two-dimensional functionally graded multilayered four-point bending beam that exhibits non-linear behaviour of the material is analyzed. The fracture is studied analytically in terms of the strain energy release rate. The beam under consideration has an arbitrary number of layers. Each layer has individual thickness and material properties. A delamination crack is loc...

In this paper, the solution of a moving Volterra-type screw dislocation in an orthotropic layer, bonded between two piezoelectric layers is obtained using complex Fourier transform. The dislocation solution is then employed as strain nuclei to derive singular integral equations for a medium weakened by multiple moving cracks. These equations, which are classified as, Cauchy singular equations, ...

Because of the light weight and high strength, composite laminates have many advantages in aircraft structures; however, they are frequently subjected to severe dynamic loadings during flight. To understand properties laminated thin plates at stress scale, this paper studies modal analysis (SMA) by finite element method (FEM). Firstly, basic theory on SMA was given from classical displacement a...

We develop strain and temperature sensors based on multimode interference in a partially chlorinated graded-index polymer optical fiber (PCGI-POF) and experimentally investigate their sensing performance at room temperature using incident light of ∼1300 nm wavelength. The length of the PCGI-POF was 0.7m. The measured strain and temperature sensitivities were −4.47 pm/με and +9.66 nm/°C/m, respe...

Heterogeneous wireless sensor networks (HWSNs) are widely adopted in structural health monitoring systems due to their potential for implementing sophisticated algorithms by integrating a diverse set of devices and improving a network's sensing performance. However, deploying such a HWSN is still in a challenge due to the heterogeneous nature of the data and the energy constraints of the networ...

Polyvinylidene Flouride (PVDF) is a film-type polymer that has been used as sensors and actuators in various applications due to its mechanical toughness, flexibility, and low density. A PVDF sensor typically covers an area of the host structure over which mechanical stress/strain is averaged and converted to electrical energy. This study investigates the fundamental "stress-averaging" mechanis...

This study establishes an adaptive-scale damage detection strategy based on a wavelet finite element model (WFEM) for thin plate structures. Equations of motion and corresponding lifting schemes for thin plate structures are derived when the tensor products of cubic Hermite multi-wavelets are taken as the elemental interpolation functions. Sub-element damages are localized with the use of the c...

A new approach is developed for finite element modeling of muiti-layer laminated beams. Within the beam element, the laminate is decomposed as muttiple basic layers, such as base beam layers of metal like, soft-core layers of adhesives, and soft coating layers of polymers, and mass and stiffness matrices of these basic layers are assembled together to generate those matrices for the beam elemen...