Microwires, such as metallic, semiconductor, and polymer microwires and carbon fibers, have stimulated great interest due to their importance in various structural and functional applications. Particularly, metallic glass (MG) microwires, because of their amorphous atoms arrangement, have some unique mechanical properties compared with traditional metals. Despite the fact that substantial resea...

This paper presents an experimental and numerical investigation into the stability of normal high strength steel circular hollow section (CHS) columns. Two cold-formed S700 CHS profiles – 139.7×4 139.7×5 (in mm), were studied in programme, twelve column tests (six on each profile), together with accompanying material tests, performed. The load-deformation histories key results from are reported...

The use of aluminium alloys as a structural material has recently increased because their advantageous properties such high strength-to-weight ratio and corrosion resistance. However, due to low Modulus Elasticity, instability is major concern for alloy members subjected compression. One the ways improve performance hollow sections on this count have concrete infill within them. Past research s...

This paper presents a generalized formulation for the problem of buckling optimization of anisotropic, radially graded, thin-walled, long cylinders subject to external hydrostatic pressure. The main structure to be analyzed is built of multi-angle fibrous laminated composite lay-ups having different volume fractions of the constituent materials within the individual plies. This yield to a piece...