Feasibility of elastomeric composites as alternative materials for marine applications: A compendious review on their properties and opportunities

D Aravind, K Senthilkumar, N Rajini… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The term elastomer is a curtailment of two words, which are elastic and polymers.
Accordingly, elastomers are polymer materials with elasticity. The significant challenges …

Generalized probabilistic response surfaces for the buckling strength assessment of stiffened panels

KN Anyfantis, S Pantazopoulou, N Papanikolaou - Thin-Walled Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The ultimate compressive strength of stiffened panels has been well studied and a variety of
simplified buckling formulas are available. However, there is a significant degree of …

Reliability-based design optimization of composite stiffened panels in post-buckling regime

C López, O Bacarreza, A Baldomir… - Structural and …, 2017 - Springer
This paper focuses on Deterministic and Reliability Based Design Optimization (DO and
RBDO) of composite stiffened panels considering post-buckling regime and progressive …

Experimental and theoretical investigation on the shear performance of stiffened composite panel with I-shaped stiffeners

Y Feng, S Liu, T Zhang, S Jiao - Composite Structures, 2022 - Elsevier
The shear performance of stiffened composite panel with I-shaped stiffeners was analyzed
experimentally and theoretically in this work. Shear experiments were conducted to obtain …

Probabilistic optimisation of mono-stringer composite stiffened panels in post-buckling regime

H Farokhi, O Bacarreza, MHF Aliabadi - Structural and Multidisciplinary …, 2020 - Springer
In this paper, a multi-objective probabilistic design optimisation approach is presented for
reliability and robustness analysis of composite structures and demonstrated on a mono …

Design improvement of a composite-to-steel butt-joint based on finite element analysis

L Xu, N Kharghani, M Li, CG Soares - Ocean Engineering, 2021 - Elsevier
A composite-to-steel butt-joint applied to joining large composite sandwich panels to steel
ships is studied and its design is improved based on numerical simulations combined with …

Comparative design of E-glass and flax structures based on reliability

J Blanchard, AJ Sobey - Composite Structures, 2019 - Elsevier
Flax fibres are often documented as having equivalent properties to E-glass ones. Based on
these comparisons they have been proposed as a suitable replacement for E-glass in …

Multiscale reliability analysis of a composite stiffened panel

VMK Akula - Composite Structures, 2014 - Elsevier
A method for performing reliability analysis of a composite stiffened panel subjected to axial
compression using the finite element method is discussed. Three-dimensional shell and …

Probabilistic residual ultimate strength assessment of cracked unstiffened and stiffened plates under uniaxial compression

W He, X Cui, Z Hu, J Liu, C Wang, L Yao - Ocean Engineering, 2020 - Elsevier
This paper proposes a reliable approach to evaluate the probabilistic residual ultimate
strength of cracked unstiffened/stiffened plates by coupling nonlinear finite element analysis …

The prediction of buckling load of laminated composite hatstiffened panels under compressive loading by using of neural networks

S Kumar, R Kumar, S Mandal, AK Rahul - 2018 - idr-lib.iitbhu.ac.in
Background: Stiffened panels are being used as a lightweight structure in aerospace,
marine engineering and retrofitting of building and bridge structure. In this paper, two …