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Unified formulation for a family of advanced finite elements for smart multilayered plates
Alberto Milazzosubject
EngineeringGeneral Mathematics02 engineering and technologyKinematicsSquare (algebra)0203 mechanical engineeringmedicineMathematics (all)Mechanics of MaterialGeneral Materials ScienceSettore ING-IND/04 - Costruzioni E Strutture AerospazialiCivil and Structural EngineeringVariable (mathematics)business.industryMechanical EngineeringStiffnessStructural engineering021001 nanoscience & nanotechnologyStrength of materialsFinite element method020303 mechanical engineering & transportsMechanics of MaterialsMaterials Science (all)medicine.symptom0210 nano-technologybusinessdescription
AbstractFamilies of layer-wise and equivalent single-layer advanced finite elements for the analysis of smart multilayered plates are formulated in a unified framework. The proposed modeling strategy reduces the multifield problem to an effective mechanical plate by the condensation of the electromechanical state into the plate kinematics, which is assumed as a variable order expansion along the plate thickness. Carrera Unified Formulation is invoked to derive the elemental stiffness and mass matrices and the mechanical and magneto-electric equivalent forces. The obtained smart plate finite element equations involves kinematical variables only and this extends the tools developed for multilayered composite plates to smart laminates. Results for simply-supported magneto-electro-elastic multilayered square plates are presented to validate the proposed modeling approach and finite elements and to investigate their features.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2016-03-09 | Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures |