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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Rayleigh-Ritz technique"”.
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Vibration Characteristics of Thin-Walled Noncircular Composite Cylinders
… of Hamilton's Principle in conjunction with the Rayleigh-Ritz technique. By use of a so-called shape factor, the magnitude of cylinder normal displacements are modulated to be larger in the regions of the cross section with the largest radius of curvatures and smaller in the regions with the …
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Use of Piezoelectric Actuators to Effect Snap-Through Behavior of Unsymmetric Composite Laminates
… not be required to maintain the shape. Using the Rayleigh-Ritz technique, several models are developed to predict the interaction between the base laminate and the actuator. In particular, the voltage (applied to the actuator) needed to snap the laminate is predicted. The NASA-LaRC Macro-Fiber …
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Deformations of Piezoceramic-Composite Actuators
… through the use of variational methods and the Rayleigh-Ritz technique. These analyses are based on classical layered plate theory and assumed the various layers exhibited linear elastic, temperature-independent behavior. Geometric nonlinearities are important and are included in the …