Functionally graded materials for knee and hip arthroplasty; an update on design, optimization, and manufacturing

A Najibi, T Mokhtari - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The stress-shielding (SS) effects following orthopedic implantation can lead to implant
loosening. Functionally graded materials (FGMs) and coatings (FGCs) are special …

Bio-inspired nacre and helicoidal composites: from structure to mechanical applications

A Sharma, NK Shukla, MO Belarbi, M Abbas… - Thin-Walled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Researchers and engineers have been fascinated by the way weak organic and inorganic
components naturally combine to create strong and long-lasting structures for the past few …

Stability analysis of imperfect FG sandwich plates containing metallic foam cores under various boundary conditions

M Chitour, A Bouhadra, F Bourada, B Mamen… - Structures, 2024 - Elsevier
This research investigates the influence of porosity on the stability behavior of thick
functionally graded sandwich plates subjected to mechanical loads, addressing a critical …

Buckling of bi-coated functionally graded porous nanoplates via a nonlocal strain gradient quasi-3D theory

AA Daikh, MO Belarbi, A Khechai, L Li, HM Ahmed… - Acta Mechanica, 2023 - Springer
With the increasing use of coated functionally graded materials (FGMs) in various industrial
engineering, their accurate modeling is very theoretically challenging and therefore has …

Random forest-based surrogates for transforming the behavioral predictions of laminated composite plates and shells from FSDT to Elasticity solutions

A Garg, T Mukhopadhyay, MO Belarbi, L Li - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
In the present work, a surrogate model based on the Random Forest (RF) machine learning
is employed for transforming the First-order Shear Deformation Theory (FSDT) based …

High-dimensional nonlinear flutter suppression of variable thickness porous sandwich conical shells based on nonlinear energy sink

ZQ Wang, SW Yang, YX Hao, W Zhang, WS Ma… - Journal of Sound and …, 2025 - Elsevier
Nonlinear energy sink (NES) is widely applied in engineering field due to the advantages of
light weight, high robustness, unidirectional energy transfer, rapid and broadband vibration …

Mechanical behavior analysis of FG-CNT-reinforced polymer composite beams via a hyperbolic shear deformation theory

MO Belarbi, SJ Salami, A Garg, AA Daikh… - Continuum Mechanics …, 2023 - Springer
This paper presents a hyperbolic shear deformation theory and discusses its application to
investigate the bending and buckling behavior of functionally graded carbon nanotubes …

Dynamic response of functionally graded porous-core sandwich plates subjected to blast load using ES-MITC3 element

QH Pham, TT Tran, PC Nguyen - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
The main objective of this paper is to use the combination of the edge-based smoothed finite
element method (ES-FEM) and mixed interpolation of tensorial components triangular …

Viscoelastic free vibration analysis of in-plane functionally graded orthotropic plates integrated with piezoelectric sensors: Time-dependent 3D analytical solutions

A Singh, S Naskar, P Kumari… - Mechanical Systems and …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper proposes an accurate three-dimensional framework for elastic and viscoelastic
free vibration investigation of in-plane functionally graded (IPFG) orthotropic rectangular …

Multilayer heterostructure inhomogeneous model for pressurized functionally graded annular structures (cylinder/sphere/annulus) with arbitrary elastic property along …

P Shi, J Xie, X Li - Composite Structures, 2023 - Elsevier
Mechanical analysis is the key basis for the structural safety of functionally graded materials
(FGMs). Herein, a very natural and highly accurate model is proposed to solve the statics …