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Ying Xiao1, Hao-Miao Zhou1,2,3, Xiao-Wei Ou1, Chao Li1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 1-22, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2012.027.001
Abstract Considering the complex strongly nonlinear coupling characteristic of the magnetostrictive strain and magnetization under the excitation of the bias magnetic field and the pre-stress in the giant magnetostrictive material, this paper adopts the nonlinear magnetostrictive constitutive model and the equivalent circuit method to establish a strongly nonlinear resonant magnetoelectric (ME) effect theoretical model for the ME laminate composites compounding by the giant magnetostrictive material and the piezoelectric material. For the L-T mode magnetostrictive/piezoelectric/magnetostrictive (MPM) ME laminate, the predicted results coincide well with the experiment results of the resonant frequency and the resonant ME field coefficient varying with the external magnetic… More >
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Chien-Hao Tseng1, Dah-Jing Jwo2, Chih-Wen Chang1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 23-54, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2012.027.023
Abstract The extended particle filter (EPF) assisted by the Takagi-Sugeno (T-S) fuzzy logic adaptive system (FLAS) is used to design the ultra-tightly coupled GPS/INS (inertial navigation system) integrated navigation, which can maneuver the vehicle environment and the GPS outages scenario. The traditional integrated navigation designs adopt a loosely or tightly coupled architecture, for which the GPS receiver may lose the lock due to the interference/jamming scenarios, high dynamic environments, and the periods of partial GPS shading. An ultra-tight GPS/INS architecture involves the integration of I (in-phase) and Q (quadrature) components from the correlator of a GPS receiver with the INS data.… More >
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Shen Shang and Gun Jin Yun1,1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 55-72, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2012.027.055
Abstract In this paper, the Self-Optimizing Inverse Method (Self-OPTIM) has been experimentally verified by identifying constitutive parameters solely based on prescribed boundary loadings without full-field displacements. Recently the Self-OPTIM methodology was developed as a computational inverse analysis tool that can identify parameters of nonlinear material constitutive models. However, the methodology was demonstrated only by numerically simulated testing with full-field displacement fields and prescribed boundary loadings. The Self-OPTIM is capable of identifying parameters of the chosen class of material constitutive models through minimization of an implicit objective function defined as a function of full-field stress and strain fields in the optimization process.… More >
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Smitha Gopinath1,2, A. Ramachandra Murthy1, Bhaskar Srivastava1, V. Ramesh kumar1, Nagesh R. Iyer1
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.27, No.1, pp. 73-100, 2012, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2012.027.073
Abstract The present study investigates the behavior of concrete specimens confined with woven roving glass fabrics under uniaxial compression. The fabric made up of 360G.S.M. woven roved E-glass is embedded in a polyester resin before application. Experimental investigations have been carried out on confined and unconfined concrete specimens of size 150 mm (diameter) X 300 mm (height) under a displacement controlled loading. The effect of number of layers on confinement has also been investigated. Load versus deflection plots have been obtained for all the specimens. Numerical studies have been performed on the confinement effect of the wrapped concrete specimens. A non-linear… More >