Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, ( ISI ), Volume (37), No (11), Year (2013-11) , Pages (1524-1531)

Title : ( Elastic wave propagation in a functionally graded nanocomposite reinforced by carbon nanotubes employing meshless local integral equations (LIEs) )

Authors: hassan ghayoumizadeh , Farzad Shahabian Moghadam , Seyed Mahmoud Hosseini ,

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Abstract

The transientdynamicanalysisofdisplacement field andelasticwavepropagationin finite length functionally gradednanocompositereinforcedbycarbonnanotubesarecarriedoutusinglocalintegral equations(LIEs)basedonmeshlesslocalPetrov–Galerkin (MLPG)method.Thedistributionofthealigned carbon nanotubes(CNTs)isassumedtovaryasthreekindsoffunctionallygradeddistributionsaswellas uniform distribution(UD)throughradialdirectionofaxisymmetricreinforcedcylindricalcomposites. The mechanicalpropertiesaresimulatedusingamicro-mechanicalmodelinvolumefractionform. A unitstepfunctionisusedasatestfunctioninthelocalweakform,whichleadstolocalintegral equations(LIEs).Theanalyzeddomainisdividedintosmallsubdomainswithacircularshape.Theradial basis functionsareusedforapproximationofthespatialvariationof field variables.Fortreatmentoftime variations,theLaplace-transformtechniqueisutilized.The2Dpropagationofelasticwavesthrough2D domain isillustratedforvariouskindsofcarbonnanotubesdistributions.Thetimehistoriesof displacement fields arestudiedindetailforvariouskindsofcarbonnanotubedistributionsinreinforced cylindrical composites.

Keywords

Carbon nanotubes; Nanocomposites; Elastic wave propagation; Meshless local Petrov–Galerkin (MLPG)method; Local integral equations(LIEs); Radial basis functions.