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In this study, two multiscale hierarchical atomisyic/molecular dynamics (MD)–finite element (FE) coupling methods are proposed to illustrate the influence of temperature on mechanical properties of SLGS in large deformation. The Tersoff interatomic potential is implemented, in addition, the Nose-Hoover thermostat and local harmonic approximation are employed to adjust the fluctuation of temperature in CB and MD, respectively. The atomic nonlinear elastic parameters are obtained via computing second-order derivative of Representative atom’s energy and RVE’s strain energy density with respect to deformation criterions (deformation gradient and Green strain tensor). To bridge between atomistic... 

Carbon nanotubes are cylinders in Nano scale formed of carbon atoms with covalent bonds that contain a significant electrical and mechanical features. Carbon nanotubes are divided into two main types: multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) and single walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs). A SWCNT is a rolled graphene sheet (graphene is in fact a single sheet of graphite). SWCNTs has lately been considered as one of most interesting research cases. The reason why researchers have been fond of investigating about graphene has been its unconventional quantum hall effects, high room-temperature electrical conductivity and its mechanical stability despite of being composed of single layer atom... 

Injecting liquid fuel into the cross flow of air provides high penetration of the liquid, rapid mixing with air, and increased efficiency. This method has widespread applications in the propulsion systems of gas turbines, scramjets, turbine blade cooling, and fuel injection for engine afterburners. One of the design strategies for future aircraft engines is to reduce pollutants using fuel spray into the cross flow instead of direct jet fuel injection and using renewable energy sources. The applications of cross flows include injecting fluid through rotating pressure injectors in exhaust flows, injecting fluid through pressure-rotating injectors in radial injectors, and using slinger... 

The liquid breakup analysis and spray characteristics measurement of atomizers are very essential for the numerical modeling of the primary atomization in combustion chambers. The rotary atomizers are used in many applications especially in small gas turbine engines as a fuel injection system. An experimental investigation of primary breakup dynamics and spray characteristics of rotary atomizers with high aspect ratio discharge channels are described. Four different rotary atomizers with round radial, round radial-axial, round radial tangential, and square radial discharge channels are studied. The purposes of this study are to identify the effect of channel orientation and its geometry on... 

This thesis aims to develop a numerically efficient nonlinear layer-wise shell element formulation for delamination analysis of laminated composite shell structures. The element, in a mesoscale scheme, is formulated based on a zig-zag theory and features three translational degrees of freedom for each node on the mid-surface of the shell in addition with two rotational degrees of freedom for each layer. In this way, the displacement field is formulated via adapting the Mindlin-Reissner theory in each layer and an ordered second-order algorithm for finite rotations. To verify the proposed formulation, many popular benchmark problems for geometric nonlinear analysis of shell problems are... 

In this Thesis hydroelastic analysis of 3D hydrofoil is investigated while partial sheet cavitation effects are considered. To this aim, first steady cavity boundary must be recognized.This region is calculated by means of conventional iterative procedure, stood upon potential flow theorem. In the second step, the reduced order fluid dynamics equations are derived based on potential flow theorem along with finite element method. This procedure is done in a way that real time system of equations are derived and iterative algorithm of conventional methods is omitted. To this aim, it is assumed that amplitude and frequency of the body oscillations are altered so that the cavity length in... 

Liquid atomization have broad range of usage in different industries. Colliding two jets is one method for atomization of different kind of fluids especially high viscose and viscoelastic fluids. Here, we experimentally investigated the effect of skewness and velocity differential of two Newtonian viscose colliding jets on formation of a special oscillating liquid sheet pattern with periodic fragmentation called “fishbone”. For this work, four liquid sheet regimes; triple chain, double chain, close rim, and open rim which fishbone pattern could be observed were produced and Skewness and jets velocity differential were applied to them. A synced CCD camera and stroboscope illumination source... 

The present study is aimed at investigating experimental methods to control and stabilize the oscillatory effects of sheet/cloud cavitation. Two methods were investigated: The use of artificial cavitation generating appendages, which had a two dimensional geometry similar to that of vortex generators. Employing air injection into the cavity from different locations on the chord of the hydrofoil and a comparison of the stability achieved from each case by analyzing pictures captured from a high-speed camera. To conduct these experiments, a cavitation tunnel along with measurement devices were used. Four different appendages were tested as artificial cavitation generators, which were in two... 

Composite structures are subjected to different kinds of loadings in different workspaces, and sometimes these load conditions can damage them. Delamination is a common damage in composites. In this research, the delamination effect on modal behavior of a laminated composite plate is studied. To investigate this effect, the frequency response method is used and piezoelectric patches are used as a sensor and an actuator for extracting the frequency response. The aim of this project is to investigte presence and severity of the delamination. To survey the frequency response method, an intact and some damaged plates with one sensor and actuator are modeled with abaqus software and frequency... 

In the present work, the beginning and progressive growth of delamination in laminated composites plates has been studied. Interlaminar stresses at free edge of laminate may give rise to edge delamination and result in failure of laminate. So we need to determine the exact interlaminar stresses to predict the failure of laminated composites. A computer code based on layerwise theory that can obtain the exact interlaminar stresses been developed. Comparison between the present study and finite element software result showed the good agreement.A fracture mechanics approach is used to analysis delamination propagation between layers of composites laminate. In this approach damage propagation... 

Investigation of electrostatic properties of a nano capacitor made of graphene sheets, is the aim of current research. This nano capacitor is made of two adjacent parallel gr¬aphene sheets. Applying a voltage make an electric field between the sheets, which attracts the sheets together. This change in geometry, affects the electric field between sheets, therefore, the sheet's deformation and the electric field between them are coupled to each other. For modeling the deformation of the sheets, molecular dynamics analysis is employed. The electrostatic equations are used for modeling the electric field. The electric field is assumed to be static in this research, which means that the... 

In this research, molecular structural mechanics method is employed to calculate the Young’s modules of a two-layered carbon graphene sheet. For this purpose, covalent bonds are modeled using non-linear beam elements and van der Waals interactions are replaced by nonlinear truss elements. Morse potential and Lennard-Jones potential equations are used to simulate the covalent bonds and van der Waals interactions, respectively. For each atom, van der Waals forces are considered from all other atoms located in its cut-off radius. Young’s modulus, bending modules and Poisson’s ratio of single and two-layered graphene sheets were calculated and the results revealed that Young’s modulus decreases... 

The new lateral load resisting system introduced in this dissertation is a kind of squat composite shear wall consisting of a concrete core as filler and two steel corrugated sheets as cover. Reinforced bars are not used in this kind of construction. Load resisting process of the walls is provided by 3 factors: concrete core, steel corrugated covers on both sides of the central core and shear-friction interaction between the core and covers. There is not any specific formula for their design because of their novelty and few researches on this kind of walls and absence of code provisions. In this project, squat composite walls were constructed with dimensions of 106.8×90 (cm2) from corrugated... 

Obtaining the mechanical properties of body tissues in a non-destructive manner is clinically important and has wide applications in the diagnosis and prevention of diseases. one of non-destructive methods is elastography, which requires proper modeling of the tissue and then analysis of the wave propagation in it and obtaining the propagation relations and the dispersion curves. Study of the literature revealed that many simplifications have been used in most modelings of arteries and so far the anisotropy of the artery and its layers with the effects of surrounding tissues and blood have not been studied Therefore, the aim of this study is to model the artery as a two-layer orthotropic... 

Sandwich plates have been used in wide range of aerospace, civil, marine and petroleum applications due to their high stiffness-to-weight ratio and load-carrying capability. In most of practical applications in aerospace, marine and offshore industries, sandwich structures are surrounded by a fluid flow e.g. water and air which causes the significant effects on their design parameters namely natural frequency and buckling load. In the present study, Based on the Kirchhoff-Love theory within von Kármán’s geometric nonlinearity, the nonlinear vibration analysis of multilayered sandwich plates subjected to potential flow (inviscid and incompressible fluids) is presented. Rectangular sandwich... 

In this dissertation, using experimental and numerical methods, the effects of grain morphology on the formability of sheet metals are investigated. In this regard, in the first stage, by conducting heat treatment on two different sheet metals with bcc and fcc crystal structures, different grain sizes are produced. Using metallographic observations, these grain structures are examined and the grain sizes are measured. Tensile test and Nakazima formability test have been implemented on these specimen. The grains are also shaped in the rolling process and different grain morphologies are created. In the second stage, a software has been developed to generate various grain structures and... 

Recently, isogeometric methodology has been successfully implemented in one-step inverse analysis of sheet metal stamping processes. However, these models are not capable of analyzing forming processes which require severe deformation and/or several forming stages. This paper presents a multi-step inverse isogeometric methodology to enhance the precision of one-step models in predictions of the initial blank, strain distributions, and drawability of the formed parts. This methodology deals with the minimization of potential energy, deformation theory of plasticity, and considering membrane elements. The presented methodology utilizes the NURBS basis functions to create the final, middle, and... 

This research presents inverse isogeometric models based on the deformation theory of plasticity to predict the blank and strain distribution in sheet metal forming processes. In this study, the NURBS functions are utilized for both modeling of a final part and analysis of the forming process. Therefore, the developed models require only one modeling and analysis representation, in contrast to finite element models which deal with two separate modeling and analysis representations. In this research, a membrane one-step inverse isogeometric model is initially presented to analyze sheet metal forming processes. This method has various advantages such as solving the governing equations in... 

One of the oldest and most used methods in shaping metals is the formation of metal sheets. In designing the process of printing, it's important to know how much the strain on the sheet prior to slipping is. In order to predict the permissible strains in the two-axis stretch of the sheet, they introduced an empirical diagram called the shape-forming diagram. There are various methods for analyzing the formation of metallic sheets, which can be referred to by M-K method, GTN method, continuous damage mechanics method (CDM). In this research, we have tried to obtain the shape of a metal sheet in various strain paths by studying the method of CDM and modeling the mechanical behavior of the... 

In recent years, two-layer sheets have been used in various industries. In this research, the formability of a two-layer sheet which is made of 1.35 mm steel and 0.45 mm copper sheets has been studied. The two-layer sheet used in this study was made by explosive welding method. In order to investigate the formability of the sheet, forming limit diagram was determined. First, Marciniak-Kuczynski (M-K) model was used. In order to determine forming limit diagram using this method, the two-layer sheet was equated with a single-layer sheet and MATLAB software was used. The two-layer sheet was also modeled in finite element software ABAQUS. In order to determine the forming limit diagram, Nakazima...