Fiber-reinforced composites with nanofiller-modified polymer matrices have immense potential to improve the safety of high-risk engineering structures. These materials are intrinsically self-sensing because their electrical conductivity is affected by deformations and damage. This property, known as piezoresistivity, has been extensively leveraged for conductivity-based damage detection via res...

Delaminations are a concern for the structural integrity of fibre composite structures. The decisive material parameter delaminations is fracture toughness. Structures usually have multidirectional ply stacking. However, interface orientation dependant toughness values and R-curve effects neglected in numerical delamination analysis. This work investigates specific considers mode I to improve s...

The first form of damage in composite laminates is often matrix microcracks that are defined as intralaminar or ply cracks across the thickness of the ply and parallel to the fibers in that ply (see reviews in [1,2]). Tensile loading, fatigue loading, environment, and thermal cycling can all lead to microcrack formation. Microcracks can form in any ply that has a significant component of the ap...

In this study, a modeling method to analyze multidimensional time series based on complex networks is proposed. The rate of return sequence of the closing price and the trading volume fluctuation sequence of the Shanghai Composite Index, the Shenzhen Component Index, the S & P 500 index, and the Dow Jones Industrial Average are analyzed. The two-dimensional time series is transformed into a com...

This paper is devoted to the buckling analysis of thin composite plates under straight single-walled carbon nanotubes reinforcement with uniform distribution and random orientations. In order to develop the fundamental equations, the B3-Spline finite strip method along with the classical plate theory (CPT) is employed and the total potential energy is minimized which leads to an eigenvalue prob...

the levy-type analytical solution is employed for the problem of bending of cross-ply and antisymmetric angle-ply piezoelectric hybrid laminated plates with at least two simply supported opposite edges. the governing equations of equilibrium are derived in the framework of the first-order shear deformation plate theory. the equations are classified according to the crystallography type of piezo...

Nonlinear vibration and postbuckling behavior of a single layer graphene sheet (SLGS) embedded in a polymer matrix aroused by the nonlinear van der Waals (vdW) forces are investigated using the Kirchhoff plate theory. The interfacial vdW forces are described by a nonlinear function in terms of the graphene deflection. Through harmonic balance method, the nonlinear relation between deflection am...

In this paper, a method with the potential to rapidly produce thermoplastic polymer composite bipolar plates with improved formability and hrough-plane conductivity is described. In our earlier work, it was reported that composite bipolar plates made with graphite filled wet-lay materials xhibited excellent mechanical properties and in-plane electrical conductivity. However, the through-plane c...