Abstract: The hybrid numerical method, which has been proposed by the present authors for wave propagation analysis in anisotropic laminated plates, is extended for functionally gradient piezoelectric ...

Abstract: A new numerical method, the strip element method, is presented for the stress analysis of anisotropic linearly elastic solids. For two-dimensional problems the domain is discretized in one ...

Abstract: The strip element method (SEM) has been extended to investigate wave scattering by cracks in anisotropic laminated plates. The cracked plates are divided into domains in which the extended SEM ...

Abstract: The application of the hybrid numerical method proposed in the previous paper by the present authors to the computation of transient waves in composite material plates excited by step-impact ...

Abstract: A numerical method is used to determine the dispersion relation (an eigenvalue equation) of plane wave propagation in an anisotropic laminated plate. A phase velocity surface, phase slowness ...

Abstract: A hybrid numerical method in which the finite element method and the method of Fourier transforms are combined is proposed for computing the transient waves in anisotropic laminated plates ...

Abstract: The wave propagation in arbitrary anisotropic laminates is investigated on the basis of an exact theory. The dispersion relations of Lamb waves are determined for graphite/epoxy symmetric angle-ply ...

Abstract: A simple procedure is proposed in this paper to estimate the global failure probabilities of a submarine oil pipeline subjected to underwater explosion shock wave. The deterministic response of ...

Abstract: A strip element method is presented for analyzing wave scattering by a crack in a composite laminate submerged in a fluid. In this method, the fluid and laminated plate are modeled using ...

Abstract: An analytical model for the characterization of delamination in beams using flexural wave scattering analysis is presented. In the beam model of wave propagation, the beam is divided into four ...