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Research Article | Open Access
Volume 10 2018 | None
COMPOSITE TWISTED PANELS: VIBRATION AND BUCKLING UNDER HYGROTHERMAL LOADING: A RECENT STUDY
Mithun Kishor Nichwani, Vinayadeep G M, Marabaraddi Jagadeesh
Pages: 315-323
Abstract
Because of its light weight, high-specific strength and stiffness, excellent thermal characteristics, ease in fabrication, and other important specialties, the twisted composite cantilever has significant applications in the aeronautical and aerospace industry as well as civil, naval, and other high-performance engineering applications. These structural members will often be subjected to a wide variety of service loads for the whole of their service life. The presence of temperature and moisture concentration in the environment may significantly lower the stiffness and strength of the structures. This may also have an effect on some design parameters, such as the vibration and stability characteristics of the structures. It is essential to determine the natural frequency as well as the static stability of the composite laminated twisted cantilever panels when they are subjected to hygrothermal circumstances. This will allow you to steer clear of the common issues that are brought on by vibrations and stability. In light of this, the current examination focuses on researching the vibration and stability behaviour of laminated composite twisted panels when they are exposed to hygrothermal circumstances. For the purpose of conducting a vibration and stability study on a laminated composite pre-twisted cantilever panel that has been exposed to hygrothermal conditions, a simple laminated model has been constructed. In order to carry out all of the required calculations, a computer programme that is based on FEM and is run in the MATLAB environment has been built. Based on FSDT theory, a hygrothermally loaded eight-noded isoparametric quadratic shell element is employed here. Each node has five degrees of freedom, and the element has an isoparametric quadratic shape. Using the idea of minimal potential energy, one may calculate the element elastic stiffness matrices, mass matrices, geometric stiffness matrix related to hygrothermal loads, and load vectors. On the vibration and buckling properties of laminated pre-twisted cantilever panels for a range of temperatures and moisture concentrations, the impacts of various factors such as the angle of twist, aspect ratio, ply-orientation, geometry, and number of layers of laminate are explored. There is a presentation of numerical findings that shows how the vibration and buckling properties of twisted plates are affected by the pre-twist angles, geometry, and lamination details of the plates. In the process of designing composite twisted structures, this may be used to one's advantage via tailoring. Composite twisted panel, hygrothermal loading, and stability are some of the keywords that might be used.
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Because of its light weight, high-specific strength and stiffness, excellent thermal characteristics
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