Plates reinforced by ribs or joists are common elements in lightweight building structures, as well as in other engineering structures. However, these structures are not well suited for the common simplified prediction models such as Statistical Energy Analysis (SEA) or the European calculation standard EN 12354. There are several reasons for this: One is that the overall vibration field is not...

Multi-ribbed frame grid (hereinafter referred to as MRFG) is an important part of Multi-ribbed composite wall and consisted of outer frame and ribbed grid. The reinforcement of outer frame is the main influence factor on the performance of MRFG. In this study, an MRFG specimen under laterally cyclic and axial loading in literature is numerically simulated with 5 kinds of different reinforcement...

The present work is carried out to investigate heat transfer and friction factor characteristics of fluid (air) flow through turbulent channel i.e. parallel plate heat exchanger for different geometry and designs parameters, with a bottom plate applied to uniform constant heat flux thermal boundary condition, and upper plate is provided with a insulated condition. The fluid domain is designed u...

In the present paper, an analytical approach is used to study the thermal deflections of a simply supported composite plate with a beam-like stiffener. The results for a plate–beam system exposed to a sinusoidal thermal load is used to study the effects of the low Earth orbit (LEO) thermal conditions on the composite plates, which have been used in the structure of satellites and spacecraft. To...

the effect of a distributed patch mass on the natural frequency of vibration of a laminated rectangular plate with simply supported boundaries is investigated. the third order displacement field of a composite laminated rectangular plate is defined using the two variable refined plate theory. equations of motion of the plate are obtained with the help of calculus of variation. parametric study ...

A weighted sum of spatial gradients (WSSG) control metric for use in active structural acoustic control of finite ribbed plates was developed and compared to volume velocity. A finite element model was used to obtain the displacement field on the plate, and a finite difference derivative approach to obtaining the terms in WSSG was used. Previous results of ASAC on finite ribbed plates are minim...

An analytical model is developed for examining the vibro-acoustic properties of a fluid-loaded plate reinforced by periodic ribs of finite width. This model is used to understand the frequency filtering properties of the flexural wave and the structural-borne sound wave of the ribbed plate under different fluid loading conditions. The relationships between the flexural waves and the related sou...

Polymer concrete, a composite material in which the binding material is some type of polymer, is being used more widely in the construction industry. Polymer concretes can also contain steel reinforcing rebars; therefore, the rate of adhesion between polymer concrete and reinforcing steel must be determined. Our study investigated the extent and behaviour of adhesion in the case of reinforcing ...

Structural analysis and design of efficient pressurized fuselage configurations for the advanced BlendedWing-Body (BWB) flight vehicle is a challenging problem. Unlike a conventional cylindrical pressurized fuselage, stress level in a box type BWB fuselage is an order of magnitude higher, because internal pressure primarily results in bending stress instead of skin-membrane stress. In addition,...