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    Buckling of non-uniformly heated isotropic beam: Experimental and theoretical investigations
    (Elsevier Ltd, 2016) George, N.; Jeyaraj, P.; Murigendrappa, S.M.
    Influence of non-uniform heating on critical buckling temperature of an aluminium beam has been investigated experimentally with the help of a novel experimental set-up developed in-house. Non-linear finite element analysis, considering the initial geometric imperfection, has been carried out to compare the experimentally obtained typical load-deflection curve. The linear critical buckling temperature predicted numerically are validated with analytical solutions. Experimental results revealed that critical buckling temperature of the non-uniformly heated beam greatly differs from the uniformly heated beam. It is also observed that the location of heat source and resulting non-uniform temperature variation influences the critical buckling temperature significantly. © 2016 Elsevier Ltd
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    Buckling and free vibration of nonuniformly heated functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composite plate
    (World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte Ltd wspc@wspc.com.sg, 2017) George, N.; Jeyaraj, P.; Murigendrappa, S.M.
    Buckling and free vibration behavior of functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced polymer composite plate subjected to nonuniform temperature fields have been investigated using finite element approach. The effective material constants of the plate are obtained using the extended rule of mixture along with efficiency parameters of the carbon nanotube (to include geometry-dependent material properties). Influence of boundary conditions, aspect ratio, functional grading of the carbon nanotube, nonuniform thermal loading on thermal buckling and free vibration behavior of the heated plate are analyzed. It is observed that temperature fields and functional grading are influenced on the critical buckling temperature of the plates. Further, nature of functional grading showed significant change in buckling mode shapes irrespective of the boundary conditions. The first few natural frequencies of the plate under thermal load decreases as the temperature increases and they are influenced significantly by the nature of temperature field. Variations in free vibration mode shapes of the square plates found with not significant change as temperature increases. However, free vibration modes of the rectangular plates are sensitive to the nature of temperature field whenever there is a free edge associated with the boundary condition. Influence of functional grading on the free vibration mode shapes is not significant in contrast with the free vibration natural frequencies. The magnitude of free vibration natural frequencies of functional grade-X type carbon nanotube reinforcement showed higher in comparison with other two types of reinforcements considered here. © 2017 World Scientific Publishing Company.
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    Vibro-acoustic behavior of functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced polymer nanocomposite plates
    (SAGE Publications Ltd info@sagepub.co.uk, 2018) George, N.; Jeyaraj, P.; Murigendrappa, S.M.; Mailan Chinnapandi, M.C.
    This paper presents the numerical investigation results carried out on vibro-acoustic behavior of functionally graded carbon nanotube reinforced polymer nanocomposite plate using combined finite element method and Rayleigh integral. Parameter studies are carried out to analyze the in?uence of nature of functional grading, loading of carbon nanotube, and structural boundary conditions on free and forced vibration and sound radiation characteristics in detail. It is found that natural frequencies are significantly in?uenced by the nature of functional grading while the mode shapes are insensitive. The resonant amplitude of vibration and acoustic response are significantly in?uenced with the nature of different functional grading. This re?ects in the bandwise calculation of sound power also which recommends the carbon nanotube functional grading with X distribution along the thickness direction for lower frequency level. Similar variation in vibro-acoustic response has been observed with increase in the carbon nanotube loading also. © 2016, IMechE 2016.