The instability improvement of the symmetric angle-ply and cross-ply composite plates with shape memory alloy using finite element method

• Main Authors: A. Rasid, Zainudin, Zahari, Rizal, Ayob, Amran
• Format: Article
• Published: Hindawi Publishing 2014
• Subjects: TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
• Online Access: http://eprints.utm.my/id/eprint/62975/; http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/632825

Shape memory alloy (SMA) wires were embedded within laminated composite plates to take advantage of the shape memory effect property of the SMA in improving post-buckling behavior of composite plates. A nonlinear finite element formulation was developed for this study. The plate-bending formulation...