This book presents an overview of recent and emerging additive manufacturing (AM)
techniques and their applications. It explains several of the processes developed using …

The growing use of composite materials for aerospace applications has resulted in the need
for quantitative methods to analyze composite components. Ultrasonic guided waves …

The present research deals with general wave propagation in a piezoelectric sandwich
plate. The core is consisted of several viscoelastic nanocomposite layers subjected to …

The propagation of elastic waves in heterogeneous media is of interest for impact dynamics
and non-destructive detection. This work presents a refined spectral element model (RSEM) …

This paper investigates the wave propagation behavior of carbon nanotube-reinforced
composites (CNTRCs) plates resting on elastic foundations in a thermal environment. The …

Modern methods of detection and identification of structural damage direct the activities of
scientific groups towards the improvement of diagnostic methods using for example the …

This study proposes a time-domain spectral finite element (SFE) model and investigates
nonlinear guided wave interaction at a breathing crack. An extended time-domain SFE …

The elastic wave propagation in a thin-walled composite structure carries information
concerning its material properties and structural discontinuities. Towards the damage …

A frequency domain spectral finite element formulation is presented for the wave
propagation analysis of laminated composite curved beams using the first order shear …

A unified bran-new wavelet algorithm has been proposed for solving large bending of
clamped or simply supported variable-thickness plates resting on nonlinear triparametric …