...Zhun Li; Guang Pan; KeChun Shen Purpose The objective of this paper is to investigate numerically the buckling behavior of submersible composite cylinders. Design/methodology/approach By means of FEM and golden section method, the search of hoop winding layers, longitudinal winding layers...

..., compression and biaxial bending. The total potential energy is minimized with respect to skew angle and half wavelength of the buckling mode. The optimization algorithm is updated sequentially using quadratic approximation until minimum buckling coefficient is attained. The developed algorithm is validated...

... of filament-wound composite is presented. The stress and strain fields in the composite cylinders are analyzed using the ABAQUS software packages for considering the filament undulation and crossover. The paper presented results of buckling load of composite cylinders with different types of filament-winding...

...Ahmed Bekhadda; Ismail Bensaid; Abdelmadjid Cheikh; Bachir Kerboua Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the static buckling and free vibration of continuously graded ceramic-metal beams by employing a refined higher-order shear deformation, which is also the primary goal of this paper...

...Rahul Kumar; Jeeoot Singh Purpose The purpose of this paper is to assess different five variables shear deformation plate theories for the buckling analysis of FGM plates. Design/methodology/approach Governing differential equations (GDEs) of the theories are derived by employing the Hamilton...

...Mokhtar Bouazza; Noureddine Benseddiq Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate an analytical modeling for the thermoelastic buckling behavior of functionally graded (FG) rectangular plates (FGM) under thermal loadings. The material properties of FGM are assumed to vary continuously...

... Soares (2007) presented a method for reliability assessment of the post‐buckling compressive strength of laminated composite stiffened panels under axial compression. The prediction of the post‐buckling strength is performed using progressive failure analysis. Pu and Mesbahi (2006) employed ANNs...

...Xiao‐Jian Xu; Zi‐Chen Deng Purpose The purpose of this paper is to study the buckling and the vibration of the beam induced by atom/molecule adsorption using the nonlocal Euler‐Bernoulli beam model with initial axial stress. Design/methodology/approach The nonlocal parameter associated...

...I. Ben Ammar; A. El Mahi; C. Karra; R. El Guerjouma; M. Haddar Purpose The aim of the present study is to investigate the mechanical behaviour of cross‐ply laminates under static tensile and buckling loading. Different cross‐ply laminates constituting of carbon fibers (CFRP), hybrid fibers (HFRP...

... programming techniques to model the interaction between the box girder components. Findings Interactive buckling is a critical issue that must be accounted for in the design of box girders. Ignoring the structural interaction may lead to failures and damages prior to the expected design life. Practical...

...A. Kumaravel; N. Ganesan; Raju Sethuraman Purpose The purpose of the paper is to investigate the linear thermal buckling and vibration analysis of layered and multiphase magneto‐electro‐elastic (MEE) cylinders made of piezoelectric/piezomagnetic materials using finite element method. Design...

...A. Kumaravel; N. Ganesan; Raju Sethuraman The paper deals with the investigation of linear buckling and free vibration behavior of layered and multiphase magneto‐electro‐elastic (MEE) beam under thermal environment. The constitutive equations of magneto‐electro‐elastic materials are used to derive...