Experimental and numerical analysis of heat convection in cylindrical composite structures with internal defects

Abstract

The present article discusses the influence of delamination and external loads on the heat transfer in flat and curved laminated panels. Three cases are considered in details: (1) the unloaded structure (length is a constant), (2) the static loading, and (3) the fatigue loading. Here, the comparison between experimental and numerical (finite element method) results is presented. The numerical model allows us to adopt implementations of various boundary conditions as well as the size of delamination. The influence of the shallowness parameter and the thermal resistance is demonstrated. The experimental detection of temperature contours during the cooling process has been conducted at different points in the area surrounding the delamination.

Thermal buckling analysis of tapered laminated composite beam: Numerical and experimental investigation

“…George et al [21] experimented with the thermal buckling behavior of laminated glass fiber reinforced epoxy-based composite beam under non-uniform heat input to estimate the critical buckling temperature of the studied beam. Muc et al [22] investigated the postbuckling characteristics and stability loss of multilayered composite beams. It shows that the cutouts and reinforcement had significantly influenced the buckling and postbuckling characteristics of composite specimens.…”