In this research, the influence of carbon nanotubes agglomeration on buckling behavior multi-phase CNTs/fiber/polymer/metal composite laminates cylindrical shells under hydrostatic pressure was investigated. Governing equations were derived according to Kirchhoff-Love’s first approximation shell theory and solved by a combination Galerkin Fourier series expansion methods. Equivalent elastic pro...

Starting from the exact solution of heterogeneous linear viscoelastic Eshelby ellipsoidal inclusion problem obtained in time domain for an embedded isotropic matrix (Berbenni et al., 2015), a direct time-incremental homogenization Mori–Tanaka scheme two-phase non elasto-viscoplastic materials is proposed. The extension to non-linear behavior based on “modified secant” formulation obtain compari...

In this article, the nonlocal biaxial buckling load and bending analysis of polymeric piezoelectric nanoplate reinforced by carbon nanotube (CNT) considering the surface stress effect is presented. This plate is subjected to electro-magneto-mechanical loadings. Eshelby-Mori-Tanaka approach is used for defining the piezoelectric nanoplate material properties. Navier’s type solution is employed t...

The dependence relation between the macroscopic effective property and the microstructure of interpenetrating multiphase composites is investigated in this paper. The effective elastic moduli of such composites cannot be calculated from conventional micromechanics methods based on Eshelby s tensor because an interpenetrating phase cannot be extracted as dispersed inclusions. Employing the conce...

The main aim of this paper is to investigate bending behavior in sandwich plates with functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced composite (FG-CNTRC) face sheets with considering the effects of carbon nanotube (CNT) aggregation. The sandwich plates are assumed resting on Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundation and a mesh-free method based on first order shear deformation theory (FSDT) is devel...