Stress and strain recovery for functionally graded free-form and doubly-curved sandwich shells using higher-order equivalent single layer theory

Composite Structures

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 67-89

  Tornabene, Francesco ^a   Fantuzzi, Nicholas ^a   Viola, Erasmo ^a   Batra, Romesh C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b State University   (United States)

Author keywords

B zier curve; Functionally graded materials; Generalized differential quadrature method; Higher order shear deformation theory; Stress and strain recovery

Indexed keywords

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; DIFFERENTIATION (CALCULUS); ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; HOMOGENIZATION METHOD; RECOVERY; SANDWICH STRUCTURES; SHEAR DEFORMATION; STRAIN; STRESS-STRAIN CURVES; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

CARRERA UNIFIED FORMULATIONS; EQUIVALENT SINGLE LAYER THEORIES; GENERALIZED DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHODS; HIGHER ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION THEORY; HOMOGENIZATION TECHNIQUES; STRESS AND STRAIN RECOVERY; SYSTEM OF PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; THICKNESS DISTRIBUTIONS;

FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS;

EID: 84911867052     PISSN: 02638223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compstruct.2014.08.005     Document Type: Article

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