Proceedings of the

Politecnico di Torino

Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering

Italy

18 to 20 June 2012

Antonio Ferreira (University of Porto, Portugal)

Erasmo Carrera (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)

1 Vinu Unnikrishnan, Ginu Unnikrishnan, J.N. Reddy MULTISCALE ANALYSIS OF PELVIC ORGAN PROLAPSE AND EFFECT OF COLLAGEN CONTENT 2 Farzad Hatami, Ali Ghamari INVESTIGATION BEHAVIOR OF STEEL PLATE COMPOSITED BY NANO-CARBON POLYMERS 3 Arivalagan S., Thandavamoorthy T.S. STUDY ON THE SEISMIC BEHAVIOUR PROPERTIES OF COMPOSITE BEAM MADE WITH POLYPROPYLENE FIBER 4 M. Ghiasian DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF ARCH DAMS WITH FRP JOINT REINFORCEMENT 5 Giosuè Boscato and Salvatore Russo MODEL’S PROPOSAL ON COMPOSITE (GFRP) - CONCRETE INTERACTION 6 H. Amoushahi, M. Azhari TORSIONAL BUCKLING OF FRP COMPOSITE THIN COLUMNS USING THE COMPLEX FINITE STRIP METHOD 7 H. Amoushahi, M. Azhari EFFECT OF LONGITUDINAL WEB STIFFENER OF I-SHAPE FRP COMPOSITE BEAMS USING THE COMPLEX FINITE STRIP METHOD 8 Abolfazl Arabzadeh, Asghar AmaniDashlejeh, Mohammad Ghiasian FRP- STEEL RELATION IN REINFORCED CONCRETE MEMBERS TO MAKE AN EQUAL CONFINEMENT 9 Andrey Skleznev DYNAMICS OF LATTICE COMPOSITE PAYLOAD ATTACH FITTING 10 Serge Meckaelovech Vereshaka, Emad Toma Karash, Faris Abdalah Hamed Evaluation of Load Carrying Ability of MultiLayere CYLINDRICAL SHELL 11 E. El Tom, H. Marzouk, N. Dawood BEHAVIOR OF HIGH STRENGTH CONCRETE FLAT PLATES REINFORCED WITH GFRP BARS 12 Chenyu Zhang, Simon Wang An Analytical method for static analysis of Thin-WALLED BLADES OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE MATERIALS 13 Yuhang Jing, N. R. Aluru ATOMISTIC SIMULATIONS ON THE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A SILICON NANOFILM COVERED WITH GRAPHENE 14 J.N. Reddy A nonlinear modified couple stress-based THEORIES of functionally graded BEAMS AND plates 15 Chien Thai Hoang, Hung Nguyen Xuan, Timon Rabczuk NURBS-BASED ISOGEOMETRIC APPROACH FOR STATIC, FREE VIBRATION AND BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES USING THE THIRD ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION THEORY 16 C.KARTHIK, P.SANGEETHA, R.SENTHIL Study on Moment Carrying Capacity of Composite Beam

17 Hamid Bakaiyan, Ehsan Ameri Thermomechanical analysis of filament-wound sandwich pipes under combined internal pressure and temperature gradient 18 F Z.RAHOU, A. Guen BOUAZZA, M. RAHOU Study of the kink effect in PD SOI nMOSFET transistor and simulation by using Silvaco Software 19 Hongtao Wang, James G A Croll A REFINED LOWER BOUND METHOD FOR THE BUCKLING DESIGN OF FRP LAMINATED SHELLS 20 Bethany S. Fralick, Sarah C. Baxter THE EVOLUTION OF MECHANICAL PERCOLATION IN NANOCOMPOSITES WITH RANDOM PERIODIC MICROSTRUCTURES 21 Ermias Gebrekidan Koricho, Alem Tekalign Beyene, Giovanni Belingardi CHARACTERIZATION AND FAILURE MODELING OF NOTCHED CROSS-PLY AND ANGLE-PLY FABRIC GFRP COMPOSITE MATERIAL 22 Alem Tekalign Beyene, Ermias Gebrekidan Koricho, Giovanni Belingardi NUMERICAL STUDY OF PULTRUDED COMPOSITE BUMPER BEAM USING GEOMETRICALLY OPTIMIZED PROFILE 23 Kadir Bilisik, Oguz Demiryurek Fabric Shear Determined by Yarn Pull-out and Analysis by Analytical-Statistical Models 24 Nguyen Tien Phong, Toru Fujii, Kazuya Okubo, Mohamed H. Gabr and Bui Chuong and Bui Chuong CAN QUITE A FEW AMOUNT OF POLY(VINYL ALCOHOL) NANO-FIBERS SIGNIFICANTLY IMPROVE THE DURABILITY OF CARBON FIBER/EPOXY COMPOSITE? 25 Christopher M. Harvey, Simon Wang Experimental assessment of mixed-mode partition theories 26 Victoria Mollón, Jorge Bonhomme, Jaime Viña, Antonio Argüelles INFLUENCE OF FRICTION FORCES ON THE DELAMINATION PROCESS IN CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITES 27 Carla M. Roque, Diana S. Fidalgo, António J. Ferreira Comparative Study FOR A microstructure-dependent Timoshenko beam model USING A Modified Couple Stress Theory and A Meshless Numerical Method 29 Rached El Fatmi ADVANCED COMPOSITE BEAM THEORY AND 1D/3D COMPUTATION. CENTRAL SOLUTION AND END EFFECTS. 30 Loredana Santo, Denise Bellisario, Claudia Prosperi, Fabrizio Quadrini RESIDUAL PROPERTIES OF RUBBER-TOUGHENED THERMOPLASTIC COMPOSITE AFTER BENDING 31 Nando L Troyani, Andrés Pérez TWO FINITE ELEMENT BASED STRATEGIES IN VISCOELASTIC COMPOSITES WITH AN APPLICATION TO ROCK TUNNELING

33 DongSeop LEE, Carlos Morillo, Sergio Oller, Gabriel Bugeda, Eugenio Onate ADVANCED HYBRID COMPOSITE STRUCTURE DESIGN OPTIMISATION USING ROBUST MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION PLATFORM (RMOP) 34 Antonio J. Paleo, Paulo J. R. O. Nóvoa, Pedro A. L. S. Martins, Carla M. C. Roque EXPERIMENTAL AND NUMERICAL ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED POLYMER PLATES 35 Pedro A. L. S. Martins, Antonio J. Paleo, Paulo J. R. O. Nóvoa, Carla M. C. Roque IMAGE ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED PARTICLE DISTRIBUTION USING OTSU'S METHOD 36 Alireza Daneshmehr, Alireza Nateghi Crack detection in a piezoelectric-composite beam under bending-torsion load based on Inman-Wang algorithm 37 Emad Jomehzadeh, Ali Reza Saidi FORCED VIBRATION OF ORTHOTROPIC GRAPHENE SHEETS BY CONSIDERING THE SMALL SCALE EFFECT 38 Seyyd Hamid Sajjadi Jazi, Mohsen Nasr Esfahany, Rouhollah Bagheri Mechanical properties of PVC based composites filled with a mixture of nano and micro size CaCO3 particulate fillers 39 Marco Petrolo and Erasmo Carrera FLUTTER ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE WINGS BY 1D CUF MODELS 40 Agus Trilaksono, Naoyuki Watanabe, Hikaru Hoshi, Shin Ichi Takeda, Yukala Iwahori MONITORING SECONDARY BENDING FAILURE UNDER TENSION LOAD USING FIBER BRAGG GRATING 41 Jaime D. Rodrigues, Carla M. C. Roque, António J. Ferreira element-free galerkin method applied to the analysis of LAMINATED plates in the framework of the carrera unified formulation 42 Arcangelo Messina THREE-DIMENSIONAL DYNAMIC AND STATIC ANALYSIS OF PLATES THROUGH DIFFERENT VARIATIONAL APPROACHES 43 Francesco Tornabene, Alfredo Liverani, Gianni Caligiana STATIC ANALYSIS WITH NORMAL AND SHEAR STRESS RECOVERY FOR ANISOTROPIC DOUBLY-CURVED SHELL PANELS USING THE DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND THE GDQ METHOD 44 Pham Chi Vinh and Do Xuan Tung Homogenization of two-dimensional rough interfaces separating two piezoelectric solids 45 Roham Rafiee ON THE REINFORCEMENT EFFICIENCY OF WAVY CARBON NANOTUBES 46 Roham Rafiee, Meghdad Heidarhaei INVESTIGATION OF STRAIN ENERGY RELEASE RATE IN CARBON NANOTUBE-BASED COMPOSITES 47 Parisa Setayeshgar, Reza Razani BEHAVIOUR OF SHEAR-BEARING LIGHTWEIGHT COMPOSITE SANDWICH WALLS WITH STEEL EGG-BOX SHAPED CORE

48 Wuxiang Liu ANALYSIS OF STEADY HEAT CONDUCTION FOR 3D AXISYMMETRIC FUNCTIONALLY GRADED CIRCULAR PLATE 49 S. Z. Mohammadi, M. Farid Vibrational Analysis of double walled helically coiled carbon nanotubes using 3d frame element and considering nonlocal effects 50 Marie Lefebvre, François Boussu, Daniel Coutellier, Daniel Vallee INFLUENCE OF THE GEOMETRICAL STRUCTURES AND RESIN RATE INSIDE COMPOSITES STRUCTURES ON THE BALISTIC BEHAVIOUR UNDER HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT 51 Dr John P. Dear, Hari Arora, Paolo Del Linz, Dr Paul Hooper BLAST RESISTANCE OF composite structures 52 Anahit J. Farmanyan, Gayane S. Hayrapetyan, Samvel H. Sargsyan Mathematical Models of Micropolar Anisotropic (Orthotropic) Elastic Single and multilayered Thin Plates 53 Simonetta Boria CFRP AUTOMOTIVE MEMBERS WITH CRASH COMPATIBILITY 54 Alberto Ortona, Sara Biamino, Claudio D’Angelo, Giuseppe D’Amico SI-SIC-ZRB2 CERAMICS BY SILICON REACTIVE INFILTRATION 55 G. M. Kulikov, S. V. Plotnikova CONSISTENT USE OF HIGHER ORDER LAYER-WISE MODELS FOR SOLVING 3D ELASTICITY PROBLEMS FOR THICK LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES 56 Jon Gosse THE BOEING ONSET THEORY AS IT APPLIES TO STRUCTURES SUBJECT TO CONSTRAINED DEFORMATION 57 Yuan Jiang, Chunlei Wang, Shuhong Xu, Yiping Cui AUTOMATIC PURIFICATION OF AQUEOUS CDTE NANOCRYSTALS IN AN ALCOHOL-WATER MIXTURE SOLVENT 58 Konstantinos I. Tserpes A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF THE SIZE EFFECTS ON THE STIFFNESS AND STRENGTH OF CARBON NANOTUBES AND GRAPHENE 59 Davide Micheli, Susanna Laurenzi, Mario Marchetti MODELLING AND MANUFACTURING OF MICROWAVE ABSORBER TILES FOR A CUBE STEALTH SATELLITE BY USING NANOSTRUCTURED COMPOSITE MATERIALS AND PARTICLE SWARM OPTIMIZATION ALGORITHM 60 E. Jaberzadeh, Sh. Hashemi NONLINEAR FREE VIBRATION OF COMPOSITE FRP PLATES BY FINITE STRIP METHOD 61 Janis Šliseris, Karlis Rocens PLATES AND SHELLS WITH DISCRETE VARYING- OPTIMAL STIFFNESS

62 Heinz Palkowski, Adele Carradó, Olga Sokolova EFFECTS OF SURFACE ROUGHNESS AND WETTABILITY ON THE ADHESION IN METAL/POLYMER/METAL HYBRID SANDWICH COMPOSITES 63 Bo Liu, Yufeng Xing Analytical Solutions for Thickness-Shear Vibrations of Rectangular Crystal Plates with Free Edges 64 Kejing Yu, Xiaofei Sha, Haijian Cao•, Kun Qian STUDY ON SHEAR THICKENING FLUIDS COMPRISED OF MULTI-DISPERSED PHASE NANOMATERIALS DISPERSED IN POLYETHYLENE GLYCOL 65 Mohamad Hosein Yas, Mahmood Heshmati free Vibration of non-uniform functionally graded nanocomposite beam reinforced by randomly oriented carbon nanotube 66 J.M.L. Reis, D.C. Moreira, L.A. Sphaier, L.C.S. Nunes DETERMINATION OF YOUNG’S MODULUS IN POLYESTER-AL2O3 AND EPOXY- AL2O3 NANOCOMPOSITES USING THE DIGITAL IMAGE CORRELATION METHOD 67 Ata El-k. S. Soliman THEORETICAL MODEL OF CONFINED CONCRETE COLUMN 68 Fiorenzo Adolfo Fazzolari FULLY COUPLED THERMO-MECHANICAL EFFECT IN FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF ANISOTROPIC MULTYLAYERED PLATES BY COMBINING HIERARCHICAL PLATE MODELS AND A TRIGONOMETRIC RITZ FORMULATION 69 Benjamin Provost, François Boussu, Daniel Coutellier, Daniel Vallee, Fabien Rondot, Julien Nussbaum COMPARISON OF DAMAGES ON 2D AND 3D WARP INTERLOCK FABRICK COMPOSITE DUE TO HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT 70 Linus Friedrich, Christian Mittelstedt FLEXURAL-TORSIONAL BUCKLING OF COMPOSITE BEAM STRUCTURES - VALIDITY OF CLASSICAL CLOSED-FORM SOLUTIONS 71 Stephen Christensen Onset Theory Informed virtual formulation of a New Composite Matrix using molecular dynamics with selected experimental validation 72 Frank Kern, Rainer Gadow Combination of Reinforcing mechanisms in ZTA-SiC nanocomposites 73 Maryam Dadkhah, Mirko Peglow, Evangelos Tsotsas Morphological Characterization of Spray Fluidized bed Agglomerates By Using X-ray µ-Computer Tomography 74 Mirko Dinulovic, Bosko Rasuo DELAMINATION ANALYSIS OF TAPERED COMPOSITE PANELS WITH SANDWICH CORE 76 Jung-Hoon Sul, B. Gangadhara Prusty, Donald W. Kelly, Liangchi Zhang, Stephen Christensen MOLECULAR DYNAMICS MODELLING OF CARBON NANOTUBE REINFORCEMENT IN POLYMER RESIN

77 A. Sexton, W.J. Cantwell, S. Kalyanasundaram DEVELOPMENT OF A FORMING LIMIT DIAGRAM FOR A FIBRE METAL LAMINATE BASED ON A GLASS FIBRE REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITE 78 Nima Akhavan Zanjani, and Shankar Kalyanasundaram THE EFFECT OF FIBER ORIENTATION ON THE FORMING BEHAVIOUR OF A SELF-REINFORCED POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITE 79 Jun Woo Lim, Minkook Kim, Dai Gil Lee DEVELOPMENT OF GASKET-LESS CARBON COMPOSITE BIPOLAR PLATES FOR PEM FUEL CELL 80 Muhsin J. Jweeg, Wedad I. Al-Azzawy, Ebtihal A. Sadiq DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF COMPOSITE PLATES UNDER CRYOGENIC ENVIROMENT 81 Giosuè Boscato, Salvatore Russo MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF COMPOSITE CONCRETE – GFRP MEMBERS : TEST RESULTS AND MODELING 82 Giosuè Boscato, J. Toby Mottram, Salvatore Russo PULTRUDED GFRP FRAME WITH BOLTED JOINTS - EFFECTS OF BOLT TORQUE ON FREE VIBRATION RESPONSE 83 Giosuè Boscato, Salvatore Russo MODEL IDENTIFICATION AND DAMAGE ASSESSMENT OF GFRP PULTRUDED ELEMENTS USING MODAL DATA 84 Ilbeom Choi, Jin Gyu Kim, Il Sung Seo and Dai Gil Lee RADAR ABSORBING SANDWICH CONSTRUCTION COMPOSED OF CNT, PMI FOAM AND CARBON/EPOXY COMPOSITE 85 Claudio D’Angelo, Sandro Gianella, Daniele Gaia, Alberto Ortona SANDWICH STRUCTURED SILICON CARBIDE CERAMICS 86 Carosena Meola, Cinzia Toscano INFRARED THERMOGRAPHY IN THE INSPECTION OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS 87 L.M.P. Durão, João Manuel R. S. Tavares, Victor Hugo C. de Albuquerque, Daniel J. S. Gonçalves DAMAGE EVALUATION OF DRILLED CARBON/EPOXY LAMINATES BASED ON AREA ASSESSMENT METHODS 88 Minkook Kim, Jun Woo Lim, Dai Gil Lee Carbon fiber/phenolic composite bipolar plate reinforced with nano-size carbon black 89 Seyedeh Farzaneh Besharat, Mehrdad Manteghian SYNTHESIS OF CaSO4 NANOPARTICLES AND PS/ CaSO4 NANOCOMPOSITE FOR INVESTIGATION OF WATER PERMEABILITY 90 M. A. Fonseca, F.A.M.M. Gonçalves, A.G.M. Ferreira, R.A.S. Moreira, M.S.A. Oliveira and J.A.O. Simões Shape memory polyurethane reinforced with carbon nanotubes: synthesis and characterization 91 Rolf Dieringer, Jochen Hebel, Wilfried Becker A NEW SCALED BOUNDARY FINITE ELEMENT FORMULATION FOR THE ANALYSIS OF CRACKS AND NOTCHES IN LAMINATED PLATES

92 E.Poodts, R.Palazzetti and A.Zucchelli INFLUENCE OF NANOFIBROUS MAT ON EPOXY RESIN UNDER TENSILE TEST AND DMTA 93 Paolo Del Linz, Paul A. Hooper, Luke Pascoe, David Smith, David Cormie, John P. Dear BLAST RESISTANCE OF LAMINATED GLASS FACADE 94 Giovanni Belingardi, Maria Pia Cavatorta, Davide S. Paolino, Alessandro Scattina Size effect on the damage tolerance of glass/epoxy laminates subject to repeated impacts 95 Giovanni Belingardi, Ermias G. Koricho, Davide S. Paolino Strain rate effect on the tensile strength of nano-modified twill weave e-glass/epoxy composites 96 Holger Massow, Wilfried Becker EFFECTIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF A FOLDED SANDWICH CORE 97 A.I. Selmy, F. Shehata, E. Gewfiel FABRICATION, MICROSTRUCTURE AND WEAR CHARACTERISTICS OF ALUMINUM/MICRO-GRAPHITE COMPOSITES (Al/Gr) 98 S.C. Baxter and R. Bpourn A PROBABILISTIC CHARACTERIZATION OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF ELASTIC MODULI IN MECHANCIALLY PERCOLATING NANOCOMPOSITES 99 Alper Buyukkaragoz, Ilker Kalkan AN ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL STUDY ON FLEXURAL BEHAVIOR OF AFRP REINFORCED CONCRETE BEAMS 100 Wenshu Yang, Elisa Padovano, Laura Fuso, Matteo Pavese, Silvia Marchisio, Dreidy Vasquez, Claudia Vega bolivar, P. Fino PREPARATION, MICROSTRUCTURE AND PROPERTIES OF SHORT CARBON FIBRE/SILICON CARBIDE MULTILAYER COMPOSITES BY TAPE CASTING AND PRESSURELESS SINTERING 101 Abdolhossein Fereidoon, Morteza Rajabpour, Hossein Hemmatian ELASTIC MODULI OF ELLIPTIC CARBON NANOTUBES BASED ON FEM 102 Jamshid Fazilati, Hamid Reza Ovesy Parametric instability of laminated longitudinally stiffened curved panels with cutout using Higher order FSM 103 Y. M Yu, C. W. Lim THE NONLOCAL EFFECT ON THE AXIAL FREE VIBRATION OF NANOBAR BASED ON THE EXACT NONLOCAL ELASTICITY 104 Pablo Navarro, Julien Aubry, Steven Marguet, Jean-François Ferrero, Sandrine Lemaire Study of oblique impacts on helicopter blades : a semi-continuous approach for the modeling of thin woven composite panels 105 Seyed Mahmoud Hosseini WAVE PROPAGATION AND MECHANICAL SHOCK ANALYSIS IN FUNCTIONALLY GRADED THICK HOLLOWCYLINDER USING A HYBRID MESH-FREE METHOD 106 Laibin Xu, Shijun Guo, Shuxing Yang, Bo Mo STABILITY AND CONTROLLABILITY ANALYSIS OF AN AIRCRAFT WITH VARIABLE SWEEP WING

107 Matthias Beerhorst, Michael Seibel, Christian Mittelstedt CLOSED-FORM TREATMENT OF THE POST-CRITICAL STABILITY BEHAVIOR OF ROTATIONALLY RESTRAINED, LONG PLATES WITH FLEXURAL ANISOTROPY 108 Jianguang Yue, Apostolos Fafitis, Jiang Qian A Multi-scale Structural Model for Coupling 1-D with 3-D Elements 109 Daniel Fernández Caballero, Víctor Rodríguez de la Cruz, J. Manuel Munoz-Guijosa, Sudhakar Nair Analysis of the ends of sandwich beams subjected to pure bending 110 A Chitgarha, M Shakeri Analysis of functionally graded cylindrical panel with piezothermoelectric layer under dynamical loading 112 Lei Gong, Robert J. Young, Ian Kinloch, Kostya S. Novoselov MECHANICS OF THE REINFORCEMENT OF NANOCOMPOSITES BY GRAPHENE 113 Garth Pearce, Don Kelly Bearing Failure Prediction for Composite Pin-Loaded Holes and Bolted Joints Using Onset Theory 114 David L. Clements On an antiplane crack problem for BONDED functionally graded anisotropic elastic materials 115 Dongyoung Lee, Soon Ho Yoon, Ki Hyun Kim, Ilbeom Choi, Dai Gil Lee Composite pressure resisting structure for the corrugated stainless steel membranes of LNG carriers 116 Young Ho Yu, Dai Gil Lee cryogenic reliability of THE SANDWICH INSULATION BOARD FOR LNG SHIP 117 Xiao Wang, Zhanming Qin MODAL INTERACTIONS OF GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR COMPOSITE AIRCRAFT WINGS CARRYING EXTERNAL STORES 118 Yizhe Feng, Zhanming Qin, Guiping Zhao MODAL INTERACTIONS OF SANDWICH PANELS WITH TRANSVERSELY COMPRESSIBLE CORE 119 Dae-Sung Son, Hyun-Jun Kim, Jae-Eung Lee, Seung-Hwan Chang SIMULATION OF BONE HEALING PROCESS FOR THE FRACTURED TIBIA APPLIED BY COMPOSITE BONE PLATES 120 Q. YANG, C. W. LIM NONLINEAR THERMAL BUCKLING OF SHEAR DEFORMABLE NANOCOLUMN BASED ON NONLOCAL STRESS THEORY 121 Rui Xu, C. W. Lim NONLOCAL ELASTICITY THEORY FOR BENDING OF CURVED NANOBEAMS 122 Y.F. Xing, D. Sun PHYSICAL INTERPRETATION OF MULTI-SCALE PERTURBATION METHOD FOR PLANE PROBLEM 123 S. Kalyanasundaram, S. DharMalingam, S. Venkatesan, A. Sexton EFFECT OF PROCESS PARMAETRS DURING FORMING OF SELF REINFORCED – PP BASED FIBER METAL LAMINATE

124 Vladimir A. Popov Effect of Oxidation of Metal Matrix Composites with Nanodiamond reinforcements 125 Erik Euler MEDUSA, AN ULTRA LIGHT WEIGHT MULTI-SPECTRAL CAMERA FOR A UAV 126 A.R. Setoodeh, H. Shafiei Nonlinear force vibration of functionally graded carbon nanotube-reinforced composite beams 127 Heinz Palkowski, Marcus Kühn INFLUENCE OF CORE AND SKIN MATERIALS AND THEIR THICKNESS ON THE FORMABILITY OF METAL/POLYMER/METAL SANDWICH COMPOSITES 128 K. R. JAGTAP, ACHCHHE LAL, B.N.SINGH EFFECT OF RANDOM MATERIAL PROPERTIES ON NONLINEAR FREE VIBRATION RESPONSE OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS PLATE IN THERMAL ENVIRONMENT 129 H.R. ANALOOEI, MOJTABA AZHARI SMALL SCALE EFFECT ON THE BUCKLING OF GRAPHENE SHEETS BASED ON NONLOCAL MECHANICS BY SPLINE FINITE STRIP METHOD 130 Elisa Padovano, Wenshu Yang, Andrea Antonini, Sara Biamino, Matteo Pavese PRESSURELESS SINTERING OF ZrB2 WITH DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF SILICON CARBIDE 131 Mehdi Eftekhari, Soheil Mohammadi on the buckling analysis of defective carbon nanotubes by molecular structural mechanics approach 132 Lars Ulke-Winter, Matthias Klaerner, Lothar Kroll DAMPING BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITES – AN EVOLUTIONARY APPROACH FINDING MATHEMATICAL RELATIONSHIPS 133 Andrey A. Pan'kov Piezocomposites with Ellipsoidal Ferrite Inclusions in Piezoelectric Matrix 134 Ryszard Pyrz MONTMORILLONITE AND ITS INTERPHASE – MOLECULAR MODEL WITH VERIFICATION 135 L. Maio, E. Monaco, F. Ricci, L. Lecce SIMULATION OF LOW VELOCITY IMPACT ON COMPOSITE LAMINATES WITH PROGRESSIVE FAILURE ANALYSIS 136 Michele Meo, Michele Guida, Francesco Marulo Shape memory alloy hybrid composites for aeronautical applications 137 M. Guida, F. Marulo, B. Monesarchio, M. Bruno crash absorber mechanism for a crashworthy landing gear 138 Werner Wagner Delamination analysis of structures with interface elements based on hellinger-reissner and hu-washizu principles 139 Tony Murmu, Sondipon Adhikari, Michael McCarthy DYNAMIC NONLOCAL FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR VIBRATING CARBON NANOTUBES

140 Alberto Milazzo DEFORMATION ANALYSIS OF LAYERED MAGNETO-ELECTRO-ELASTIC PLATES 141 Calogero Orlando, Alberto Milazzo, Ivano Benedetti 3D BOUNDARY ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF DELAMINATION CRACK USING THE CRACK CLOSURE INTEGRAL 142 Fritz Motschmann, Farid Infed SILICIUMCARBIDE-BASED CERAMIC MATRIX COMPOSITES FOR TERRESTIAL AND AEROSPACE APPLICATIONS 143 Erasmo Carrera, Marianna Maiarù and Marco Petrolo 1D component-wise models for failure analysis of composites 144 Michael Krommer, Pelin Berik, Yury Vetyukov, Ayech Benjeddou ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE STRUCTURES WITH PIEZOELECTRIC d15 SHEAR-RESPONSE-BASED TORSION ACTUATORS 145 Nicolae Crainic, Antonio Torres Marques, Ladislau Vékás, Paulo Jeorge R. Nóvoa, Oana Marinica, Nicolae Calin Popa, Alina Taculescu, Camelia Daia, Liviu Marsavina, Anghel Cernescu, Dinu Gubencu, and Fanica Mustata MAGNETIC NANO-COMPOSITE MATERIALS OBTAINED USING MAGNETIC NANO-FLUIDS 146 Willy Leclerc, Philippe Karamian, Alexandre Vivet, Alain Campbell INFLUENCE OF THE PERCOLATION PHENOMENON ON THE EFFECTIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CNT-BASED POLYMER COMPOSITES 147 Kun Yu, Heng Hu, Salim Belouettar, Michel Potier-Ferry A FOURIER-RELATED MULTI-SCALE ANALYSIS ON THE INSTABILITY PHENOMENA OF SANDWICH STRUCTURES 148 J. Belinha, R.M. Natal Jorge, L.M.J.S.Dinis THE ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED PLATES USING A NEW MESHLESS METHOD 149 M. Kharazi, N. Kharghani, H. R. Ovesy PREDICTION OF THE INITIATION OF DELAMINATION PROPAGATION IN COMPOSITE LAMINATES USING LAYERWISE FSDT FOR UNSYMMETRIC LAY-UP SEQUENCES 150 Roberto Capozucca EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF BOND-SLIP EFFECTS IN RC BEAMS STRENGTHENED WITH NSM CFRP RODS 151 Jiang-feng Dong, Qing-yuan Wang, Zhong-wei Guan STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOUR OF RECYCLED AGGREGATE CONCRETE BEAMS FLEXURAL STRENGTHENED WITH CFRP SHEETS UNDER MONOTONIC AND FATIGUE LOADING 152 Carlos Morillo, DongSeop Lee, Gabriel Bugeda, Sergio Oller, Eugenio Oñate LOW ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT COMPOSITE STRUCTURE DESIGN OPTIMISATION USING ROBUST MULTI-OBJECTIVE OPTIMISATION PLATFORM 153 Stijn Debruyne, Dirk Vandepitte, Loujaine Mehrez, Eric Debrabandere STUDYING DESIGN PARAMETER VARIABILITY OF HONEYCOMB SANDWICH BEAMS BY MEANS OF EXPERIMENTAL MODAL DATA: A STOCHASTIC APPROACH

154 F. Moleiro, C.M. Mota Soares, C.A. Mota Soares and J.N. Reddy Numerical evaluation of layerwise models for analysis of multilayered piezoelectric composite plates 156 Frank Kern, Paola Palmero, Rainer Gadow, Laura Montanaro Role of elaboration route and sintering conditions on microstructure and mechanical properties of ZTA composites 157 L. Fraichard, J.-P. Bonino, M. Gressier, M. Greenhill-Hooper, F. Martin, M.-J. Menu DEVELOPMENT OF CONDUCTIVE COMPOSITES BASED ON POLYETHYLENE AND MODIFIED TALC 158 Patricia Coronado, Antonio Argüelles, Jaime Viña, Jorge Bonhomme, Victoria Mollón INFLUENCE OF MATRIX TYPE AND THERMAL VARIATIONS, IN THE PHENOMENON OF DELAMINATION, ON UNIDIRECCTIONAL CARBON-FIBRE EPOXY COMPOSITES 159 Izzet U. Cagdas Optimal design of a fiber reinforced timber frame under strength and stability constraints 160 Fulvio Romano, Rosario Borrelli, Umberto Mercurio and Modesto Pecora AN INTEGRATED PROCEDURE TO OPTIMIZE THE DESIGN OF A COMPOSITE WING 161 Yury E. Nagornyi, Victor I. Repchenkov TENATOMIC STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS OF THE GRAPHENE 162 H R Ovesy, S A M Ghannadpour and E Zia-Dehkordi Buckling analysis of moderately thick composite plates and plate structures using an exact finite strip 163 Pramod Kumar, Rakesh Chandra, S P Singh FREQUENCY EFFECT ON DAMPING OF TWO PHASE FIBER REINFORCED COMPOSITE 164 M.A.R. Loja, C.M. Mota Soares, J.I. Barbosa ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED SANDWICH PLATE STRUCTURES WITH PIEZOELECTRIC SKINS, USING B-SPLINE FINITE STRIP METHOD 165 Jaana-Kateriina Gomon, Lembit Kommel, Lauri Kollo, Jüri Majak, Raido Metsvahi, Mihhail Mihhaltsenkov LIGHT-WEIGHT COMPOSITES REINFORCEMENT WITH CARBON NANOTUBES UNDER SHEAR COMPRESSION 166 Kalipi Naga Tejadeep, Ananthula Sriram FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS OF SCREW SHAPED FIBRES IN A COMPOSITE MATERIAL TO IMPROVE MECHANICAL ADHESION 167 KAMIS E, WU Z J 3D ELASTICITY SOLUTIONS OF FULLY CLAMPED LAMINATED COMPOSITE STRUCTURES 168 Qiang Fu, Shijun Guo, Daochun Li Optimization of a Composite Wing with a Morphing Leading Edge Subject to Aeroelastic Effect 169 Olanrewaju Aluko FAILURE OF PIN-LOADED UNIDIRECTIONAL-WOVEN COMPOSITE JOINTS 170 Matteo Aureli, Christopher Pagano, Maurizio Porfiri TORSIONAL VIBRATIONS OF SHARP-EDGED BEAMS UNDER WATER

171 S.D. Akbas, T. Kocaturk, M. Simsek Thermal post-bucking analysis of 2-d beams made of functionally graded material 172 S.D. Akbas, T. Kocaturk, M. Simsek Free vibration analysis of a microbeam on elastic foundation based on the modified couple stress theory 173 M. Simsek, T. Kocaturk, S.D. Akbas STATIC BENDING OF A FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MICROSCALE TIMOSHENKO BEAM BASED ON THE MODIFIED COUPLE STRESS THEORY 174 Rimantas Barauskas, Dalia Calneryte, Julija Baltusnikaite, Ausra Abraitiene Multi-resolution finite element models for simulation of ballistic impact on composite fabric packages 175 Ion DINCA, Cristina- Elisabeta BAN, Ana STAN , I. Sandu MULTIFUNCTIONAL COMPOSITES AND NANOCOMPOSITES WITH APPLICATIONS IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY 176 Yew Khuan Boey, Young W. Kwon PROGRESSIVE DAMAGE AND FAILURE STRENGTH OF NOTCHED WOVEN FABRIC COMPOSITES UNDER AXAIL LOADING WITH VARYING STRAIN RATES 177 Samit Roy, N. Hayes, and A. Akepati A Concurrently Coupled Multi-Scale Model for Predicting Properties of Thermoplastic and Thermoset Polymer Nanocomposites 178 Daniel C. Simkins, Jr Introduction to meshfree methods 179 Daniel C. Simkins, Jr Application of Boeing onset theory to the Open hole tension problem 180 Abdolhosein Fereidoon, Mahdieh M.Zamani, Alireza Sabet, Shokoofeh Dolati MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES-POLYPROPYLENE NANOCOMPOSITES PREPARED BY MELT PROCESSING 181 Oleg A. Nasan, Viktor I. Repchenkov METHOD OF OBTAINING ANALYTICAL DEPENDENCES OF THE COMPONENTS OF TENSOR OF ELASTIC MODULES OF THE CRYSTAL FROM FORCE CONSTANTS 182 Andreas Kempe, Lutz Nasdala, Raimund Rolfes SIMULATING SIZE-DEPENDENCY OF THE TENSILE MODULUS OF ALUMINA/EPOXY NANOCOMPOSITES USING THE MOLECULAR DYNAMIC FINITE ELEMENT METHOD 183 Gómez-Pachón E. Y, Sabina F.J., Vera-Graziano R. Determination of effective elastic properties of nanofibrils nanofibers and method of differential by the replacement with asymptotic homogenization 184 Samuel J. Tucker, Andrea R. Browning ATOM-LEVEL SIMULATION OF RESIN/FIBER INTERACTIONS

185 Henrik Herranen, Jaan Kers , Jürgo S. Preden, Robert Talalaev, Martin Eerme, Jüri Majak, Meelis Pohlak, Georg Allikas, Ott Pabut, Henri Lend THE INFLUENCE OF EMBEDDED ELECTRONICS ON THE STRUCTURAL PERFORMANCE IN CARBON FIBER LAMINATEs 187 Kamran A. Khan, Anastasia H. Muliana A Multiscale Model for Fully Coupled Nonlinear Thermoviscoelastic Analyses of PARTICULATE Composites 188 Anastasia Muliana A Time-dependent micromechanical model of Ferroelectric Composites 189 Tuyen Tran, Don Kelly, Gangadhara Prusty, Garth Pearce, Jon Gosse A MICROMECHANICAL SUB-MODELLING TECHNIQUE FOR IMPLEMENTING ONSET THEORY 190 Hubert Debski, Tomasz Kubiak, Andrzej Teter BUCKLING AND POSTBUCKLING BEHAVIOUR OF THIN-WALLED COMPOSITE CHANNEL SECTION BEAM 191 Eva Aková, Marcela Hejduková, Luís Queijo, João Rocha MECHANICAL CARACTERISATION OF POLYESTER AND SUNFLOWER NATURAL FIBER COMPOSITE 192 Valter Silva, Abel Rouboa Energy efficiency analysis of a fuel cell system 193 S. Davey, R. Das, W.J. Cantwell, S. Kalyanasundaram FORMING STUDIES OF CARBON FIBRE COMPOSITE SHEETS IN DOME FORMING PROCESSES 194 S M Shiyekar and Tarun Kant HIGHER ORDER ANALYTICAL SOLUTIONS TO PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS UNDER CYLINDRICAL BENDING 195 Ki Hyun Kim, Jun Woo Lim, MinKook Kim and Dai Gil Lee DEVELOPMENT OF CARBON FABRIC/METAL HYBRID BIPOLAR PLATE FOR PEMFC 196 Alan Crosky, Don Kelly, Garth Pearce, Shen Lim, Sinan Atli, Luis Teh Damage Development Ahead of Arrested Cracks in A STRAIN GRADIENT IN Unidirectional Fibre Reinforced Plastic Composites 197 Samir A Emam A GENERAL NONLOCAL NONLINEAR THEORY FOR COMPOSITE NANO BEAMS IN BUCKLING 198 S.B. Dong and E. Taciroglu BEAM THEORIES FOR CROSS-SECTIONS OF INHOMOGENEOUS, ANISOTROPIC MATERIALS 199 Arun R. Srinivasa, J. N. Reddy A CONSTRAINED FINITE DEFORMATION COSSERAT ELASTIC MODEL FOR COMPOSITES AND ITS RELATION TO SMALL DEFORMATION COUPLE STRESS THEORIES 200 Vladimir A. Popov Development of electrochemical coatings from mMC with nanodiamond reinforcements 201 Ahmad Rafsanjani, Alessandra Patera, Jan Carmeliet, Dominique Derome MULTISCALE MODLING OF ANISOTROPIC HYGROMECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF NATURAL CELLULAR COMPOSITES

202 Ming-Hwa R. Jen, Che-Kai Chang, Jing-Guan Chen, Bo-Cyuan Lin FATIGUE RESPONSE OF TI/APC-2 NANOCOMPOSITE LAMINATES AFTER LOW-VELOCITY IMPACT 203 Marie-France Vallat, Vincent Roucoules Polymer/metal hybrids 204 Emiliano Lepore, Andrea Marchioro, Marco Isaia, Markus J. Buehler, Nicola M. Pugno Is the most stretchable cocoon silk NANOCOMPOSITE bundle that of the spider Meta Menardi? 205 C. Qian, T. Westphal, C. Kassapoglou, R. P. L. Nijssen MODELLING OF FATIGUE OF UNIDIRECTIONAL COMPOSITES USING MULTIPLE-FIBRE UNIT CELLS 206 Mansour Mohieddin Ghomshei, Hadi Khani Filestan STABILITY ANALYSIS OF GRID-STIFFENED COMPOSITE CYLINDRICAL SHELL BY DIFFERENTIAL QUADRATURE METHOD 207 Do-Hyoung Kim, Dong-Hoon Choi and Hak-Sung Kim Optimal design of automotive hybrid steel/composite lower arm 209 Li-li Jiang, Tao Zeng Theoretical prediction on the mechanical properties of 3D braided composites using a helix geometry model 210 Katarzyna Kowal-Michalska, Zbigniew Kolakowski POSTBUCKLING ANALYSIS OF FGM RECTANGULAR PLATES SUBJECTED TO LINEARLY VARYING EDGEWISE COMPRESSION 211 Zbigniew Kolakowski, Katarzyna Kowal-Michalska LOWER BOUND ESTIMATION OF POST-BUCKLING BEHAVIOUR OF THIN-WALLED FUNCTIONALLY GRADED STRUCTURES 212 Paolo Gaudenzi, Gianluca Facchini, Annalisa Pizzini ENERGY HARVESTING FROM THE VIBRATION OF SMART COMPOSITE STRUCTURE 213 S.D. PATEL, SUHAIL AHMAD, P. MAHAJAN PROBABILISTIC BEHAVIOR OF COMPOSITE PLATE UNDER BALLISTIC IMPACT 215 Marco A. Pérez, Lluis Gil, Sergio Oller NON-DESTRUCTIVE EVALUATION OF LOWVELOCITY IMPACT DAMAGE IN COMPOSITE LAMINATES USING DYNAMIC RESPONSE 216 Radoslaw J. Mania DYNAMIC BUCKLING OF FGM THIN-WALLED PLATE SUBJECTED TO INPLANE BENDING 217 Yongdong Pan, Gen Chen, Jinfeng Zhao, Zheng Zhong LASER EXCITED WAVE PROPAGATION IN PIEZOELECTRIC/PIZOMAGNETIC LAYERED STRUCTURES 218 Alberto D’Amore, Luigi Grassia THE RESIDUAL STRESSES OF PHOTO-SENSITIVE NANO AND MICRO COMPOSITES FOR DENTAL APPLICATIONS

219 Luigi Grassia, Alberto D’Amore THE TWIST-BENDING BEHAVIOR OF FORWARD SWEPT WINGS: STRUCTURAL BEHAVIOR AND CURING RESIDUAL STRESSES 220 Jorge Barcena, Miguel Lagos, Iñigo Agote, Cristina Jimenez, Claudio Badini, Elisa Padovano, Sandro Gianella, Daniele Gaia, Konstantina Mergia, Spyros Messoloras, Christian Wilhelmi, Alberto Ortona, Claudio D’Angelo, Giulio Scocchi, Volker Liedtke SMARTEES, AN EUROPEAN COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH FOR ADVANCED CERAMIC STRUCTURES IN ATMOSPHERIC THERMAL PROTECTION FROM SPACE: PROJECT OVERVIEW 221 Yoann Joliff, Lénaïk Belec, Jean-François Chailan MULTISCALE ANALYSIS OF WATER DIFFUSION IN UNIDIRECTIONAL COMPOSITE MATERIALS – INTERPHASES IMPACT: EXPERIMENTAL, ANALYTICAL AND NUMERICAL APPROACH 222 Mariasun Mendizabal, Idoia Gaztelumendi, Sonia Florez MULTIFUNTIONAL STRUCTURES BASED ON NANOCOMPOSITES 223 Matteo Minervino, Marco Gigliotti , Jean-Claude Grandidier, Marie Christine Lafarie-Frenot ON THE DEFORMATION BEHAVIOUR OF ISOTROPIC AND ORTHOTROPIC PLATES UNDER PURE BENDING MOMENTS ALONG ALL EDGES 225 Corin Reuter, Meike Frantz, Christian Lauter, Holger Block, Thomas Tröster SIMULATION AND TESTING OF HYBRID STRUCTURES CONSISTING OF PRESS-HARDENED STEEL AND CFRP 226 Seokje Lee, Sunghyun Park, In-Gul Kim, and Oo-Chul Jun RELIABILITY-BASED PROBABILISTIC APPROACH FOR THE COMPOSITE STIFFENER OF CONFORMAL LOAD-BEARING ANTENNA STRUCTURE 227 Maria Cinefra, Erasmo Carrera THERMO-MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED STRUCTURES VIA REFINED SHELL FINITE ELEMENTS 228 Mirella Ramírez, Gerardo G. Nava-Gómez, Federico J. Sabina, Héctor Camacho-Montes, Raúl Guinovart-Díaz, Reinaldo Rodríguez-Ramos, Julian Bravo-Castillero CLOSED-FORM FORMULAS OF EFFECTIVE STIFFNESS AND ENGINEERING CONSTANTS OF LAMINATE COMPOSITES WITH AUXETIC CONSTITUENTS 229 Keka Talukdar, Apurba Krishna Mitra INvestigation of defect controlled mechanical behavior of the single wall carbon nanotubes by molecular dynamics simulation 230 Niranjan L. Shegokar and Achchhe Lal THERMOMECHANICAL NONLINEAR ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED CYLINDRICAL SHELL PANEL WITH RANDOM SYSTEM PARAMETER 231 Matteo Strozzi, Francesco Pellicano NONLINEAR VIBRATIONS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED CYLINDRICAL SHELLS: EFFECT OF COMPANION MODE PARTICIPATION 232 Adriana Amaro Diacenco, Antônio Marcos Gonçalves de Lima, Edmilson Otoni Correa NUMERICAL FORMULATION IN FINITE ELEMENTS OF DAMPING IN COMPOSITES MATERIALS USING FIRST-ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION THEORY

233 N. Cocheteau, F. Lebon, I. Rosu, S. AitZaid, I. Savin DeLarclause On the direct bonding of two silicon surfaces: experimEnts and modeling 234 Christian Brauner, Axel S. Herrmann ANALYSIS OF MANUFACTORING INDUCED SHAPE DISTORSIONS AND STRESS ON THE APPLICATION OF A LARGE COMPOSITE STRUCTURE 236 Hankeln, F.; Gorny, B.; Lauter, C.; Schmidt, H. C.; Damerow, U.; Mahnken, R.; Maier, H. J.; Troester, T.; Homberg, W. Simulation And Manufacturing Of Deep Drawn Parts Reinforced By Carbon Fibre Prepregs 237 André Luis Christoforo, Alan Souza Silva, Túlio Panzera, Anine Cristina Detomi, Fabiano Bianchini Batista, Paulo Henrique Ribeiro Borges A FULL FACTORIAL DESIGN ANALYSIS OF POLYMERIC COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH EUCALYPTUS WOOD CHIP 238 Metin Aydogdu, Tolga Aksencer DYNAMIC INTERLAMINAR STRESSES IN A VIBRATING LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATE 239 B. Uymaz and M. Aydogdu THREE DIMENSIONAL SHEAR BUCKLING OF FG PLATES WITH VARIOUS BOUNDARY CONDITIONS 240 Tolga Aksencer, Metin Aydogdu THERMAL BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF NANOPLATES USING LEVY TYPE SOLUTION 241 Metin Aydogdu, Pınar Karaoglu, Secil Secgin, Seckin Filiz VIBRATION AND BENDING ANALYSIS OF MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES 242 Christophe Bouvet, Samuel Rivallant, Natthawat Hongkarnjanakul EFFECT OF FIBRE FAILURE ON LOW VELOCITY IMPACT OF COMPOSITE LAMINATE WITH DIFFERENT STACKING SEQUENCES 243 Luis Távara, Vladislav Mantic, Enrique Graciani, Federico París Influence of the fibre-matrix interface properties and fibre radius on the interface crack onset and growth under biaxial loads 244 Wenjuan Sun, Ying Li, Dong WANG, LINBING WANG Multiscale Modeling of Crack propagation in hydraulic cement concrete using Finite element method and molecular dynamics method 246 Keka Talukdar, Apurba Krishna Mitra exceptional mechanical behavior of carbon nanotubes due to interlayer interaction; a molecular dynamics simulation study 247 Holm Altenbach, Victor A. Eremeyev, Anna A. Girchenko ON THE STABILITY OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED NON-LINEAR ELASTIC PLATES 248 Túlio Hallak Panzera, Anine Cristina Detomi, Reniene Maria dos Santos, Fábio de Paiva Cota, Carolina Coelho Martuscelli , André Luiz Christoforo THE EFFECT OF CERAMIC PARTICLES INTO GLASS FIBRE REINFORCED COMPOSITES 249 Tan Sui, Felix Hofmann, Li Tao, Kaiyang Zeng, Sophie Eve, Alexander M. Korsunsky LOCAL ORIENTATION ANALYSIS OF ABALONE NACRE BY MICRO-BEAM LAUE DIFFRACTION

250 Marco Paggi, Mauro Corrado, Maria Alejandra Rodriguez A MULTI-SCALE AND MULTI-PHYSICS NUMERICAL APPROACH TO MICROCRACKING IN PHOTOVOLTAIC LAMINATES 251 Daniela Schlemmer, Rômulo S. Angélica, Maria José A. Sales INFLUENCE OF ORGANICALLY MODIFIED MONTMORILLONITE ON THE MORPHOLOGY OF NANOCOMPOSITES BASED ON THERMOPLASTIC STARCH 252 Denneulin Sébastien, Philippe Viot, Frédéric Léonardi, Jean-Luc Lataillade, Catherine Frousety Modelling and identification of the mechanical behavior of Kevlar/epoxy composites with nanoparticles embedded in matrix at the macro-scale 253 Senthil S. Vel THREE-DIMENSIONAL EXACT SOLUTION FOR THE VIBRATION OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED CYLINDRICAL SHELLS 254 Roberta Massabò PROGRESSIVE INTERFACIAL DAMAGE IN COMPOSITE CYLINDRICAL SHELLS 255 Senthil S. Vel, Alden C. Cook Multiscale THERMOELECTROELASTIC Analysis of Laminated Plates with Integrated Piezoelectric Fiber Composite Actuators 256 Brett A. Bednarcyk, Phillip W. Yarrington, Steven M. Arnold Multiscale Fatigue analysis of composite panels 257 Meisam Mohammadi, Hamed Farahmand, Majid Fooladi AN ANALYTICAL APPROACH FOR BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED RECTANGULAR MICRO-PLATES 258 K. Pingkarawat, C.H. Wang, R.J. Varley, A.P. Mouritz SELF-HEALING OF DELAMINATION CRACKS IN CARBON FIBRE-EPOXY LAMINATE USING THERMOPLASTICS 259 Alessandro P. Caruso, Marcello Infantino, Eugenio Nisini, Daniele Ghelli, Carlo Santulli, Fabrizio Sarasini, Giangiacomo Minak falling weight impact characterisation of JUTE cloth/WOOL felts hybrid laminates 260 Giuseppe Petrone, Sanjeev Rao, Sergio De Rosa, Brian Mace, Debes Bhattacharyya BEHAVIOUR OF FIBRE REINFORCED HONEYCOMB CORE UNDER LOW VELOCITY IMPACT LOADING 261 Ettore Barbieri, Nik Petrinic MESHLESS METHODS FOR MULTIPLE CRACKS IN COMPOSITES 262 F. Monaco, A. De Fenza, G. Petrone, M. Fabbtricatore, F. Abdi, F. Ricci LOW VELOCITY IMPACT ANALYSIS ON AN UNIDIRECTIONAL LAMINATE COMPOSITE 263 A. Grimaldi, A. Sollo, F. Marulo, M. Guida PARAMETRIC STUDY OF A SPH HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT ANALYSIS: A BIRDSTRIKE WINDSHIELD APPLICATION 264 R. Panciroli, S. Abrate and G. Minak DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF ELASTIC WEDGES DURING SLAMMING

265 Bazle Z. (Gama) Haque, Sanjib C. Chowdhury, John W. Gillespie Jr., David R. Hartman Molecular dynamics simulation of pristine and defective double-walled carbon nanotubes under combined loading 266 José M. Ramirez, Marcelo T. Piovan NON LINEAR DYNAMICS OF MAGNETO ELECTRO ELASTIC BEAMS WITH CURVED CONFIGURATION 267 Brahim Aïssa, Daniel Therriault, Emile Haddad, Wes Jamroz ELABORATION OF THREE DIMENSIONAL MICRO-VASCULAR NETWORKS BASED POLYMER/CARBON NANOTUBE NANOCOMPOSITE BY MEANS OF UV-ASSISTED DIRECT WRITE TECHNOLOGY FOR SELF HEALING APPLICATIONS IN SPACE ENVIRONMENT 268 Chunyu Li, Alejandro Strachan PREDICTION OF FAILURE ONSET IN MULTILAYER GRAPHENE REINFORCED EPOXY COMPOSITES USING MOLECULAR DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS 269 Alejandro Strachan, Yae-ji Kim, Eugenio Jaramillo and Chunyu Li FAILURE PREDICTIONS IN BULK PMMA AND PMMA/CNT COMPOSITES FROM MOLECULAR DYNAMICS 270 Lei Lei, Juan L. Marin and Marisol Koslowski PHASE FIELD MICROMECHANICAL MODEL OF DEFECT PROPAGATION AND NUCLEATION IN POLYMER COMPOSITES 271 Mark Pankow, Amit Salvi, Brian Justusson, Anthony Waas, Chian-Fong Yen Effect of Woven architecture on shear Fracture of 3D Woven Composites 272 Munusamy Selvaraj, Satyabodh Kulkarni, Ramamurthy Ramesh Babu Studies on FRP pultruded structural sections for transmission line towers 273 Meisam Mohammadi, Alireza Arab Solghar BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF MODERATELY THICK FUNCTIONALLY GRADED RECTANGULARE PLTES RESTING ON ELASTIC FOUNDATION 275 Yang Gao, Baosheng Zhao TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUASICRYSTAL MEDIUM WITH A RIGID SPHEROIDAL INCLUSION 276 Kiran Kumar Namala, Puneet Mahajan, Naresh Bhatnagar Experimental determination of mechanical properties of unidirectional laminates and Simulation of Impact of laminates 277 Rajneesh Sharma, Puneet Mahajan, Ramesh Kumar Mittal Variation of the elastic properties of Carbon-Carbon Composite: Image Based Finite Element Simulations 278 Luís Cunha, Cacilda Moura, Filipe Vaz STUDY OF THE PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF OXIDE THIN FILMS WITH EMBEDDED GOLD NANOPARTICLES 279 P. Georgiopoulos, E. Kontou, N. Antonakopoulos THERMOMECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF POLYLACTIC ACID/WOOD FLOUR COMPOSITES 280 Jérémie Viguié, Pierre J.J. Dumont SEMI-ANALYTICAL MODELING OF THE POST BUCKLING BEHAVIOUR OF THE g-FLUTE CORRUGATED BOARD

281 Mansour Parvizi, Mehr Angiz Qafari DETERMIN OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES FOR SAND SURFACE 282 Mansur parvizi, Hossien Salehzadeh, Hooman Zehtab Determination of virtual cohesion in semi-saturated sand, by Centrifuge Modeling 283 S.K. GEORGANTZINOS, G.I. GIANNOPOULOS, N.K. ANIFANTIS EVALUATION OF EFFECTIVE MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF GRAPHENE-BASED NANOCOMPOSITES USING A MULTI-SCALE FINITE ELEMENT APPROACH 284 Wiyao Leleng Azoti, Yao Koutsawa, Napo Bonfoh, Paul Lipinski, Salim Belouettar DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF MULTILAYERED SANDWICH COMPOSITE WITH AUXETIC LAYERS 285 Sathiskumar A. Ponnusami, Dineshkumar Harursampath Nonlinear bending behaviour of carbon nanotubes and their composites 286 Pietro Cornetti DELAMINATION IN ADHESIVE JOINTS: A FINITE FRACTURE MECHANICS APPROACH 287 Lei Zu, Sotiris Koussios, Adriaan Beukers ANALYSIS OF MULTI-LAYERED THICK-WALLED FILAMENT-WOUND PRESSURE VESSELS 288 Diego Manfredi, Elisa Paola Ambrosio, Sara Biamino,Matteo Pavese, Paolo Fino A SIMPLE APPROACH TO OBTAIN METAL MATRIX COMPOSITES THROUGH ADDITIVE MANUFACTURING 289 A. Gilioli, A. Manes, M. Giglio VIRTUAL TEST OF LOW VELOCITY IMPACT ON SANDWICH PANELS WITH AL2024 ALUMINIUM SKINS AND HONEYCOMB NOMEXTM CORE 290 L. Maheo, P. Viot, D. Bernard, A. Chirazi, G. Ceglia, O Mondain-Monval, V. Schmitt ELASTIC BEHAVIOR OF A POLYSTYRENE OPEN-CELL FOAM 291 A. V. Singh and S. Arghavan Characteristics of Single Layer Graphene Sheets 292 Dianyun Zhang, Anthony M. Waas, Chian F. Yen, Seth Ghiorse FLEXURAL RESPONSE OF 3D ORTHOGONAL INTERLOCK HYBRID TEXTILE COMPOSITES 293 A. Katebi and A.P.S. Selvadurai Indentation of a Functionally-Graded Elastic Material 294 Sergey Lurie, Natalia Tuchkova, Dmitrii Volkov-Bogorodsky, Elias Aifantis ESHELBY'S PROBLEM IN THE GRADIENT ÍEAT ÑONDUCTIVITY: APPLICATIONS TO COMPOSITE MATERIALS 295 Daokui Li, Christopher B. York NATURAL FREQUENCY PREDICTION FOR LAMINATED RECTANGULAR PLATES WITH EXTENSION-BENDING OR EXTENSION-TWISTING AND SHEARING-BENDING COUPLING 296 Nuno Silvestre, Bruno Faria, José N. C. Lopes ON THE KINEMATICS OF C-C BONDS IN TENSIONED AND TWISTED CARBON NANOTUBES

298 Hessam Ghasemnejad, Akbar Aboutorabi IMPACT DAMAGE RESPONSE OF NATURAL Z-PINNED COMPOSITE SUB-STRUCTURES 299 Francesco Tornabene, Serge Abrate fREE VIBRATIONS OF DOUBLY CURVED FUNCTIONALLY gRADED SHELLS 300 Piotr Wluka, Tomasz Kubiak STABILITY OF COMPOSITE PLATES WITH PIEZZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS 301 Giuseppe Di Franco, Bernardo Zuccarello PERFORMANCE OF SPR/BONDED HYBRID SINGLE LAP JOINTS CFRP/ALUMINUM 302 Saeid Hedayatrasa, Tinh Q. Bui WAVE PROPAGATION IN FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIAL USING CHEBYSHEV SPECTRAL ELEMENTS 303 Edna R. da Silva Comparative Analysis of Stochastic and Deterministic Optimizers inside a Metamodel Based Strategy for Global Optimization 305 Holger Pfaff, Jennifer Hay Beyond the Limits – Alternative Testing Concepts in Nano Mechanics 306 Torsten Kühn, Hartmut Pasternak, Christian Mittelstedt Closed-form Local buckling analysis of thick-walled wide-flange open-profile composite beams accounting for transverse shear deformations 307 Patrick Franciosi, Renald Brenner, Abderrahim El Omri ESTIMATES OF EFFECTIVE PROPERTIES FOR HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS WITH CO-CONTINUOUS PHASES 308 Philippe Capéran, Martin Poljansek, Eugenio Gutiérrez, S.Primi and C.Paulotto BEHAVIOUR OF THE CONNECTION BETWEEN AN FRP BEAM AND ITS CONCRETE DECK 309 Nuno Silvestre GENERALISED BEAM THEORY TO ANALYSE COMPOSITE TUBES 310 H. Akbarzadeh Bengar Anchorage Device for RC Continuous Beam strengthened with CFRP Laminate 311 A. Alibeigloo, M. Shaban FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF EMBEDDED MULTILAYER GRAPHENE SHEETS BY USING DQM 312 Yong-Bin Park, Sang-Uk Yun, Gyeong-Chan Lee, Jin-Hwe Kweon, Jin-Ho Choi HYGROTHERMAL EFFECTS ON THE STRENGTHS OF CARBON/BMI-NOMEX SANDWICH JOINTS 313 Yong-Bin Park, Byeong-Hee Lee, Jin-Hwe Kweon, Jin-Ho Choi EFFECT OF THROUGH-THICKNESS REINFORCEMENT ON THE STRENGTH OF COMPOSITE SINGLE-LAP JOINTS 314 Khanh-Hung Nguyen, Jin-Hwe Kweon, Jin-Ho Choi FAILURE ANALYSIS OF NOMEX SANDWICH PANELS UNDER HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT

315 Gyeong-Chan Lee, Ji-Seon Kim, Jin-Hwe Kweon, Jin-Ho Choi OPTIMIZATION OF SANDWICH COMPOSITE CYLINDERS FOR UNDERWATER VEHICLE APPLICATION 316 Byeong-Hee Lee, Yong-Bin Park, Jin-Hwe Kweon, Jin-Ho Choi FATIGUE BEHAVIOR OF STAINLESS PIN-REINFORCED COMPOSITE COCURED JOINTS 317 Jin-Ha Park, Jin-Ho Choi, Jin-Hwe Kweon FATIGUE LIFE EVALUATION AND CRACK DETECTION OF AN ADHESIVE JOINT WITH A CARBON NANO TUBE 318 Mehdi Abdoillahi, Masoud Rezaei, Gholamali Farzi Mechanical Properties of NOVEL ACTIVE chitosan-nanocaly Bionanocomposite 319 S M Shiyekar, Tarun Kant ASSESSMENT OF SMEARED PLATE THEORIES IN THERMAL STRESS ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED COMPOSITES 320 O. Polit, P. Vidal and M. D’Ottavio Robust shell finite element for thin to very thick composite structures 323 C.J Shen, G. Lu, T.X. Yu In-plane deformation modes of the functionally graded honeycomb 324 Erasmo Carrera, Alberto Varello, and Alessandro Lamberti EFFECT OF WARPING DUE TO AERODYNAMIC LOADINGS IN COMPOSITE WINGS 325 Alberto Varello and Erasmo Carrera REFINED KINEMATICS FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF THIN-WALLED COMPOSITE BEAMS 326 Eyad Masad, Rashid Abu Al-Rub, Dallas Little MACRO- AND MICRO-MECHANICAL SIMULATIONS OF ASPHALT COMPOSITES USING ELASTO-VISCO-PLASTIC CONSTITUTIVE MODELS 327 Kiran Bhagate, Jianqiao Ye, Arbind K. Singh Static Shape Control using Piezoelectric Actuator 328 P. Vidal, L. Gallimard and O. Polit Modeling of laminated composite and sandwich structures based on the Proper Generalized Decomposition for mechanical and thermomechanical analysis 329 R. Akbari Alashti, M. Khorsand on Dynamo-THERMO-ELASTIC ANALYSIS OF A LONG FG PIEZOELECTRIC CYLINDRICAL SHELL BY DQ-FD COUPLED 330 M. D’Ottavio and O. Polit Quasi-3D solutions for sandwich buckling and wrinkling 331 Costanzo Bellini, Wilma Polini, Luca Sorrentino EXPERIMENTAL VALIDATION OF A DESIGN METHOD TO AVOID DAMAGES OF THICK COMPOSITE PARTS DURING CURE PROCESS

332 V. Antonucci, F. Caputo, V. Lopresto, A. Riccio and M. Zarrelli EXPERIMENTAL CAMPAIGN ON COMPOSITE MATERIALS TO SUPPORT NUMERICAL SIMULATIONS OF THE LOW VELOCITY IMPACT BEHAVIOUR 333 C. Leone, A. Langella, V. Lopresto and G. Caprino NUMERICAL METHODS FOR THE IMPACT DAMAGE PREDICTION ON PLASTIC LAMINATES REINFORCED WITH BASALT FIBRE 334 Vinay Kumar, Shishir Sinha, Manohar Singh Saini, and Bikram Kishore Kanungo Study of Chemical and Thermal Properties of Rice Husk Polypropylene Composites 335 Aurélio L. Araújo, Cristóvão M. Mota Soares, Carlos A. Mota Soares FINITE ELEMENT MODEL FOR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED SOFT CORE SANDWICH STRUCTURES 336 Marta M. Moure, Carlos Santiuste, Enrique Barbero On the modelling of ductile composite under low-velocity impact 337 M. J. Khoshgoftar, G. H. Rahimi, G. H. Liaghat, H. Khodarahmi FINITE ELEMENT EVALUATION OF PROJECTILE NOSE CURVATURE RADIUS EFFECT IN BALLISTIC PERFORATION OF COMPOSITE MATERIALS 338 S. Shantharam Patil ANALYSES OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES USING HIGHER ORDER REFINED COMPUTATIONAL MODELS 339 Tsu-Wei Chou, Weibang Lu, Amanda Wu and Mei Zu Electromechanical behavior of carbon nanotube fibers and their reinforced composites 340 Meisam Omidi, G. Amoabdini, F. Haghierosadat, Tahereh Nazari ANALYSIS OF THE VIBRATIONAL BEHAVIOR OF THE COMPOSITE ANNULAR PLATES REINFORCED WITH CARBON NANOTUBES USING THE MODIFIED RULE OF MIXTURES THEORY 342 Mohammad Mahdi Doroodmand, Mohammad Mahdi Sotoudehnia, Reza Pouladi X-Ray structure analysis and thermal properties of pitch and phenol furfural based composites reinforced with carbon nanotube 343 AkbarAlibeigloo, Mohammad Peyvasteh FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONULLY GRADED CIRCULAR SOLID AND ANNULAR PLATE INTEGRATED WITH PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERS BY USING DIFFERENTIAL GUADRATURE 344 Alimorad Rashidi, Meisam Omidi, R. Arasteh,F. Yazdian A STUDY OF MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF EPOXY - BASED COMPOSITES REINFORCED WITH FUNCTIONALIZED MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE 345 Carlo Lovadina, Lorenzo Beirao da Veiga ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF SHELLS, PART I: THEORETICAL RESULTS 346 Carlo Lovadina, Lorenzo Beirao da Veiga ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOUR OF SHELLS, PART II: NUMERICAL RESULTS 347 Sajjad Seifoori, GH. Liaghat ANALYTICAL STUDIES ON THE LOW-VELOCITY IMPACT ON COMPOSITE NANOBEAM

348 F. Z. RAHOU, GUEN BOUAZZA, M. RAHOU STUDY OF THE REDUCTION EFFECT OF THE CHANNEL LENGTH IN SOI nMOSFET TRANSISTOR SIMULATED BY USING SILVACO SOFTWARE 349 Seyed Mohammad Hossein Hosseini, Ulrich Gabbert NUMERICAL SIMULATION OF THE LAMB WAVE PROPAGATION IN HONEYCOMB SANDWICH PANELS: A PARAMETRIC STUDY 350 Haider K. Ammash, Mumtaz R. LINEAR DYNAMIC ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATE WITH SINWAVE FIBER 351 Victor Weissberg, Guy Hoenig, Antaony Green, Ron Intrater NANO ENHANCEMENT FOR ADHESIVE - WHEN IT WORKS, AND WHEN IT DOESN'T 352 Ghodrat Karami, Samad Javid A MICROMECHANICAL STUDY ON THE VISCOELASTIC BEHVIOUR OF RANDOMLY DISTRIBUTED FIBERS IN FIBROUS COMPOSITES 353 Shifeng Huang An investigation on 1-3 multi-element piezoelectric composites 354 Yahiaoui Aicha, Chellil A, Nour A DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF A PARALLEL WAVELET TRANSFORM ALGORITHM UNDER UNITY MODEL AND SYSTOLIC ARRAYS 355 Marcia Parente Melo da Costa, Samuel Victorino Oliveira da Silva, Mauro Glória Gaiotte, Renata Antoun Simão, Fernando Luiz Bastian SUPERFICIAL MODIFICATION BY PLASMA OF KEVLAR FIBERS 356 Alireza Daneshmehr, Alireza Nateghi Coupling of Bending and Torsion of Cracked MAX Beams Based on a First Order Shear Deformation Beam Theory 357 Jianlin Luo, Zhongdong Duan, Shengwei Sun, Qiuyi Li STABILIZATION EFFECT OF AQUEOUS RESIN ON CARBON NANOTUBE CEMENT-BASED PIEZORESISTIVE SENSOR 358 Rajiv Manohar, S.K. Gupta Enhancement in Dielectric Properties of SWCNT Doped Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals 359 Bernd Engel, Johannes Buhl Testing methods to describe the forming-behavior of sandwich sheets 360 Gürkan ŞAKAR, Mustafa YAMAN, Cesim ATAŞ LOW VELOCITY IMPACT RESPONSE OF SANDWICH COMPOSITES WITH CORE OF POLYPROPYLENE (PP) 361 S. Özmen Eruslu, Metin Aydogdu, Seckin Filiz thermal buckling ANALYSIS OF short fıber reınforced lAMINATED plates 362 Fabrizio Scarpa, Massimo Ruzzene Band-gap acoustic states in 1D and 2D single layer graphene sheet systems

363 Jinlong Chen, Wenran Gong buckling and debond propagation in honeycomb panels containing a face/core debond subject to bending load 364 Mojtaba Ayatollahi, Alibakhsh. Kasaeian, Rasul Bagheri DYNAMIC BEHAVIOR OF A FUNCTIONALLY GRADED ORTHOTROPIC PLANE WITH MULTIPLE CRACKS 365 Ali Goodarzi, Hailey C. Taylor HIGH-STRENGTH FLEXIBLE LAMINATE RESPONSE TO DYNAMIC TENSION 366 Pierre Pineau, Frédéric Dau BUILDING STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION OF MATERIAL PROPERTIES FROM MICRO TO MESO SCALE 367 Amina Benkhedda, Mohamed Khodjet Kesba, El Abbas Adda Bedia THE INFLUENCE OF HYGROTHERMAL EFFECTS ON THE CROSS AND CRACKED COMPOSITE STRUCTURES IN TRANSIENT MODE 368 K. L. Verma ON THE THERMOELASTIC WAVES IN ANISOTROPIC LAMINATED COMPOSITE PLATES 369 Josué Aranda-Ruiz, José A. Loya, José Fernández-Sáez BENDING VIBRATIONS OF ROTATING NANOCANTILEVERS USING THE ERINGEN NONLOCAL ELASTICITY THEORY 370 Luciano Demasi PARTIALLY LAYER-WISE ADVANCED SHEAR DEFORMATION THEORIES BASED ON THE GENERALIZED UNIFIED FORMULATION 371 H. Samareh Salavati Pour, Y. Alizadeh OPTIMIZATION OF THE COMPOSITE CONE STRUCTURE LAYERS UNDER BUCKLING LOAD 372 N. Kordani, S.A. Sadough, F. Baktiari Nejad, H. Samareh Salavati Pour OPTIMIZATION OF NATURAL FREQUENCY OF THE COMPOSITE CONE STRUCTURE LAYERS 373 Wenchao Wang, Mohamad S. Qatu, Shantia Yarahmadian free vibration analyses of thin- and thick-walled orthotropic and composite hollow cylinders USING 3D ELASTICITY theory 375 M.Elhadary, M.N. Abouelwafa A new failure criterion for GFRP composite materials subjected to in-phase and out-of-phase biaxial fatigue loading under different stress ratios 376 Igor V. Pavelko, Maxim P. Smolyaninov QUASISTATIC APPROACH TO EVALUATION OF COMPOSITE MATERIAL REACTION TO A LOW-SPEED IMPACT 377 PS Prasad, Dineshkumar Harursampath CLOSED-FORM NONLINEAR SECTIONAL ANALYSIS OF PRETWISTED ANISOTROPIC BEAM WITH MULTIPLE DELAMINATIONS 378 I Prasanna Kumar, PM Mohite, S Kamle AXIAL COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH TESTING OF SINGLE CARBON FIBRES

379 Paulo C. Neves, Antonio A. Fernandes, Kent Andersson, David Lantz REDESIGN OF THE REAR MODULE OF AN HYBRID BUS USING COMPOSITE SANDWICH PANELS FOR HCV PROJECT 380 José Reinoso, Antonio Blázquez, Alejandro Estefani, Federico París, José Cañas, Elena Arévaloy, Francisco Cruz MECHANICAL RESPONSE OF A COMPOSITE STIFFENER RUNOUT SPECIMEN INCLUDING DAMAGE PROCESSES AT THE SKIN-STRINGER INTERFACES 382 A. Alibeigloo, M. Shaban LARGE DEFLECTION BEHAVIOR OF GRAPHENE SHEET EMBEDDED IN POLYMER MATRIX 383 Younes Mohammadi, S.M.Reza Khalili Effects of Temperature distributions on the free Vibration Analysis of Sandwich Plates with functionally graded face sheets 384 B. Lebental, N. Sridi, F. Bouanis, F. Bourquin, C. Cojocaru, A. Ghis CARBON NANOTUBES AND GRAPHENE BASED MICROSONAR FOR MICRO AND NANOFLUIDIC APPLICATIONS 385 Evgeny V. Morozov, Alexander V. Lopati ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF THE COMPOSITE FLEXIBLE-MEMBRANE STIFFENED SPACE SOLAR ARRAYS 386 Lorenzo Dozio FORMULATION AND VALIDATION OF VARIABLE-KINEMATIC 2-D RITZ-BASED MODELS FOR VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF FGM SANDWICH PLATES 387 Marzena Olszewska, Wojciech Gwarek A WIDE-BAND ABSORBER WITH A DECREASED THICKNESS 388 G.S. Langdon, M.Z. Hassan, W.J. Cantwell, G.N. Nurick response of blast loaded foam core sandwich panels 389 Atul Bhaskar spatio-temporal stability of an aeroelastic waveguide 390 E-M. Meghlat, M. Oudjene, H. Ait-Aider, B. Arab FINITE ELEMENT MODELING OF TIMBER-TO-TIMBER AND TIMBER-TO-CONCRETE CONNECTIONS MADE WITH DOWEL-TYPE FASTENERS 391 João Gandra, Rosa M. Miranda, Pedro Vilaça, Alexandre Velhinho PRODUCTION OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED SURFACE COMPOSITES BY FRICTION SURFACING 392 F.A. Fazzolari, M. Boscolo and J.R. Banerjee FLUTTER AND DIVERGENCE BEHAVIOUR OF COMPOSITE WINGS AT SUBSONIC SPEEDS 393 F.A. Fazzolari, M. Boscolo and J.R. Banerjee DYNAMIC STIFFNESS FORMULATION FOR EXACT BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE PLATES AND STRINGER PANELS USING A HIGHER ORDER SHEAR DEFORMATION THEORY 394 Mohammed Fahmy Aly, I. Goda, Galal A. Hassan Finite element prediction of flexural and torsional frequencies of laminated composite beams

395 I. Goda, J.F Ganghoffer, M.F. Aly Parametric study on the free vibration response of laminated composite beams 396 Yaser Mohammadi, Majid Afshar Rezaei Free and force vibration analysis of sandwich plates with functionally graded core by improved high-order sandwich plate theory 397 H.Assaee, S.Hamze A VISCOELASTIC FINITE STRIP FORMULATION FOR POSTBUCKLING ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE LAMINATED PLATES 398 Javad Rezapoure, Mazaher Salamat-talab, Alireza Nateghi, Behrooz Daneshian Size Dependent Buckling Analysis of Functionally Graded Timoshenko Micro Beams Based on Modified Couple Stress Theory 399 Majid Afshar Rezaei, Yaser Mohammadi EFFECT OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES ON THE BEHAVIOR OF SANDWICH PLATES WITH fg CORE UNDER INDENTATION LOADING 400 N. Kordani, S.A. Sadough, M. Sedighi INVESTIGATION OF MECHANICAL BEHAVIOR OF NANOCOMPOSITE UTILIZING CARBON NANOTUBES 401 Abdul Qadir Bhatti FALLING-WEIGHT IMPACT TEST FOR SMALL SCALE MODEL OF RC TYPE ROCK-SHED WITHOUT SAND CUSHION 402 Divyendu Sharma, Shakti S. Gupta, Romesh C. Batra MODE LOCALIZATION IN CROSS-PLY COMPOSITE LAMINATES 403 Romesh C. Batra, Shakti S. Gupta failure of continuum models for vibrations of single-walled carbon nanotubes and graphene sheet 404 T.A. Sebaey, E.V. González, C.S. Lopes, N. Blanco, J. Costa OPTIMIZATION OF DISPERSED LAMINATES FOR IMPROVED DAMAGE RESISTANCE UNDER LOWVELOCITY IMPACT 405 Q.M. Wu, R.J. Jiang, Y.F. Xiao, Y.Y. Chen A Beam Element for PC Box Girders with Corrugated Steel Webs Considering the Constraint Torsion 406 Y.F. Xiao, Y.Y. Chen, Q.M. Wu, R.J. Jiang preliminary study on shear lag effect of PC Box Girders with Corrugated Steel Webs 407 Hideaki Tsukamoto, Yoshiki Komiya, Toshihiro Imai, Hisashi Sato, Yoshimi Watanabe NANO- AND MICRO-INDENTATION PROPERTIES OF ZrO2/Ti FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS FABRICATED BY SPARK PLASMA SINTERING 408 Ebrahim Asadi, Mohamad S. Qatu AN ACCURATE higher-order shear deformation theory for deep composite THICK shells 409 Md A Bhuiyan, Raghuram V Pucha, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou QUANTIFYING THE EFFECT OF CNT AGGLOMERATION, ORIENTATION AND WAVINESS ON THE TENSILE MODULUS OF CNT/POLYPROPYLENE COMPOSITES

411 Yong Liu, Zhaofeng Chen, Jianxun Zhu A NEW MODELING TO PREDICT THE ELASTIC PROPERTIES OF 2.5D COMPOSITES 412 Ariel L. Stocchi, Romina P. Ollier, Celina R. Bernal, Vera A. Álvarez PARTICLE SIZE EFFECT ON MECHANICAL AND FRACTURE PROPERTIES OF GLASS BEAD REINFORCED EPOXY COMPOSITES. NANO AND MICRO TOUGHENING MECHANISMS 413 Alejandro Pacheco, Romesh C. Batra Molecular DYNAMICS SIMULATIONS OF AXIAL DEFORMATIONS OF AMORPHOUS POLYETHYLENE 414 Mohamad Ali Malakoutian, Meisam Omidi, R. Arasteh EFFECT OF NON-UNIFORM DISTRIBUTION OF THE CARBON NANOTUBES ON BEHAVIOR OF POLYANILIN SMART POLTMER USING IN MICRO-ACTUATORS 415 Albertino Arteiro, Ana Reis, Paulo Nóvoa, António Torres Marques LOW VELOCITY IMPACT BEHAVIOR OF CORK CORED SANDWICH STRUCTURES 416 Jüri Majak, Meelis Pohlak, Martin Eerme, Jaan Kers Nanoscale vibration analysis of graphene sheets using nonlocal elasticity theory 417 C.S. Upadhyay,V. Murari , R. Dhama micro-mechanics based modeling of diffused damage evolution in unidirectional composites 418 Ana M. Amaro, Paulo N. B. Reis, M. Augusta Neto REPEATED IMPACT CHARACTERIZATION OF GLASS/EPOXY COMPOSITE LAMINATES 419 Kiran Bhagate, Jianqiao Ye, Arbind K. Singh STATIC SHAPE CONTROL USING PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATOR 420 R. Sburlati EFFECTS OF A FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS COATING IN A THICK-WALLED CIRCULAR CYLINDER UNDER PRESSURE 421 J. Pernas-Sánchez, J.A. Artero-Guerrero, D. Varas, J. López-Puente Numerical modeling of high velocity impacts on composite laminates 422 R. Ardito, E. Bertarelli, A. Corigliano, G. Gafforelli ON THE APPLICATION OF PIEZOLAMINATED COMPOSITES TO DIAPHRAGM MICROPUMPS 423 Alireza Daneshmehr, Sina Akbari THE CRACK ANALYSIS OF ONE-LAYER PIEZOELECTRIC BEAM 424 Huu-Tai Thai, Dong-Ho Choi a size-dependent refined plate model based on a modified couple stress theory 425 M. A. AlMaadeed, Mabrouk Ouederni, Nabil Madi, Noora AlQahtani, Maryam AlEjji Mechanical, Thermal and Rheological Behavior of LLDPE-Carbon Black Nano- composite 426 M. A. AlMaadeed, Ramazan Kahraman, P. Noorunnisa Khanam ,Khadija Zadeh CHARACTERIZATION OF MALE AND FEMALE DATE PALM LEAVES FOR USING AS REINFORCEMENTS IN POLYMER COMPOSITES

427 Yoshihiro Narita, Shinya Honda, Naoki Koya VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF LAMINATED VGCF/ALUMINUM CIRCULAR PLATES WITH EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION 428 J.A. Artero-Guerrero, J.Pernas-Sánchez, D. Varas, R. Zaera, J. López-Puente NUMERICAL MODELING OF WOVEN CFRP PARTIALLY FLUID FILLED TUBES SUBJECTED TO HIGH VELOCITY IMPACT 429 J. Pernas-Sánchez, J.A. Artero-Guerrero, D. Varas, J. López-Puente CFRP plates subjected to sphere ice impacts 430 Stanislaw Ochelski, Pawel Bogusz, Andrzej Kiczko HEAT EFFECTS MEASUREMENTS IN PROCESS OF DYNAMIC CRASH OF POLYMER COMPOSITES 431 Thorsten Boeger, Oliver Kleinschmidt LIGHTWEIGHT DESIGN WITH 3-PLY STEEL-POLYMER SANDWICH CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL - FORMING AND JOINING OUTLINED 432 S. A. M. Ghannadpour, B. Mohammadi, J. Fazilati Bending and Buckling Problems of Nonlocal Euler Beams using Ritz Method 433 Rosario Borrelli, Umberto Mercurio, Fulvio Romano, Giuseppe Giorleo, Umberto Prisco, Antonino Squillace A NUMERICAL PROCEDURE FOR THE RESIDUAL COMPRESSIVE STRENGHT PREDICTION OF IMPACTED CFRP LAMINATES 434 Takahiro Kunimine, Masafumi Shibuya, Motoko Yamada, Hisashi Sato, Yoshimi Watanabe DEVELOPMENT OF COPPER/DIAMOND FUNCTIONALLY GRADED GRINDING WHEEL FOR CFRP DRILLING BY CENTRIFUGAL SINTERED-CASTING METHOD 435 P. K. Mahato, D. K. Maiti Flutter control of Functionaly graded material plate under thermal environment 436 Hedi Nouri, Gilles Lubineau STUDY OF THE INITIAL AND PROPAGATION OF TRANSVERSE CRACKS FOR CARBON FIBER PRE-PREG COMPOSITE SUBMITTED TO TRANSVERSE LOADING AND PRE-DAMAGED BY SHEAR LOADING 437 Burhanettin Ş. Altan, Erinç Kapusuz A DISCRETE NONLOCAL MODEL FOR VIBRATIONS OF SWCNT 438 Domenico Asprone, Ferdinando Auricchio, Costantino Menna, Simone Morganti, Andrea Prota STATISTICAL FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS TO INVESTIGATE BUCKLING AND CRUSHING BEHAVIOR OF HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES 439 Costantino Menna, Domenico Asprone, Giancarlo Caprino, Valentina Lopresto, Andrea Prota Numerical simulation of impact TEST on sandwich plates having CFRP facings and thin rubbery CORE 440 Ivo Černý, Rayner M. Mayer, George Jeronimidis, Jinping Hou EXPERIMENTAL AND COMPUTATIONAL EVALUATION OF STRENGTH OF A GRP RAILWAY FREIGHT BOGIE MODEL CONSIDERING MICROSTRUCTURE ASPECTS

441 K. Attipou, S. Nezamabadi, E.M. Daya, H. Zahrouni A multiscale approach for the vibration analysis of heterogeneous materials with viscoelastic inclusions Application to passive damping 442 Anton E. Ershov, Nikolai V. Klassen, Vladimir N. Kurlov NEW APPLICATIONS OF BIOMORPHIC COMPOSITES 445 Behrooz Daneshian, Mazaher Salamat-talab, Alireza Nateghi, Javad Rezapoure Static and Stability Analysis of Third order Shear Deformation Functionally Graded Micro Beams Based on Modified Couple Stress Theory 446 M. A. AlMaadeed, Ramazan Kahraman, Nabil Madi, P. Noorunnisa Khanam DEVEOPMENT OF HYBRID COMPOSITE OF RECYCLED POLYPROPYLENE 447 M. A. AlMaadeed, Nesibe Gozdeozerkan, Maryam AlEjji, Noora AlQahtani THE ENVIRONMENTAL EFFECT OF RECYCLE POLYPROPYLENE REINFORCED WITH WOOD AND GLASS FIBERS BY USING LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT 448 Mehdi Karevan, Kyriaki Kalaitzidou INTERFACIAL CHARACTERISTICS OF EXFOLIATED GRAPHITE NANOPLATELETS-POLYAMIDE12 POLYMER NANOCOMPOSITES 449 Rainer Gadow, Martin Wenzelburger, Martin Silber MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGIES OF PARTICLE, CARBON-NANOTUBE AND FIBER REINFORCED ALUMINUM 450 Ruben Gatt, Reuben Cauchi, Joseph N. Grima Honeycomb metameterials exhibiting anomalous Mechanical and thermal properties 451 Marek Barski HOMOGENIZATION METHODS OF SMART TWO-PHASE MATERALS REINFORCED BY PARTICLES 452 Małgorzata Chwał FE MODELING OF SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBES 453 Małgorzata Chwał, Aleksander Muc MODELING CARBON NANOTUBES NANOCOMPOSITES TRANSVERSE SHEAR PROPERTIES 454 Aleksander Muc, Marta Łysoń, Damian Kuś EXPERIMENTAL BUCKLING LOADS FOR LAMINATED PLATED AND SHELL 455 Aleksander Muc, Piotr Kędziora ACTIVE CONTROL OF BUCKLING LOADS FOR LAMINATED CYLINDRICAL SHELLS WITH A PAIR OF PIEZOELECTRIC ACTUATORS 456 Aleksander Muc, Przemysław Pastuszak NUMERICAL MODELING AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF SUBSURFACE DEFECTS IN COMPOSITE PANELS 457 Aleksander Muc, Piotr Kędziora EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSIS OF FATIGUE LIFE FOR COMPOSITE STRUCTURES

458 A. Stawiarski, A. Muc, P. Kędziora DAMAGE DETECTION AND ASSESSMENT IN COMPOSITE MULTILAYERED STRUCTURES WITH DELAMINATIONS 459 Aleksander Muc, Aleksander Banaś FREE VIBRATIONS OF CARBON NANOTUBES WITH STRUCTURAL DEFECTS 460 Aleksander Muc, Aleksander Banaś WAVELET METHODS FOR MODELING THREE DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM DOTS 461 Abdolhossein Fereidoon, Morteza Rajabpour, Hossein Hemmatian FRACTURE ANALYSIS OF CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES USING GLOBAL–LOCAL MODELS 462 Sohel Rana, Shama Parveen, Raul Fangueiro CARBON NANOMATERIAL BASED MULTI-SCALE COMPOSITES 463 José Pedro Gutierrez, Pedro Carballosa, Luis Echevarría CHARACTERISATION TESTS OF cylindrical COLUMNS reinforced with active carbon fiber JACKETS. CALIBRATION WITH FINITE element METHODS 464 Steffen Czichon, Eelco Jansen, Raimund Rolfes DETERMINATION OF LOCAL FIBER UNDULATION CAUSED BY VOID INCLUSIONS IN CARBON FIBER REINFORCED POLYMERS USING COMPUTATIONAL FLUID DYNAMICS 465 Shama Parveen, Sohel Rana, Raul Fangueiro NATURAL FIBER COMPOSITES FOR STRUCTURAL APPLICATIONS 466 Daniela P. Boso, Marek Lefik, Bernhard A. Schrefler Artificial neural networks in numerical homogenization and local stress – strain recovery 467 Anna Matveeva, Ferrie W.J. van Hattum RELATIONS BETWEEN QUANTIFICATION OF CNT DISPERSION AND MICROMECHANICAL PREDICTION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF CNT/POLYMER COMPOSITES 468 Romesh C. Batra, Kaushik Das Delamination failure of sandwich hulls due to water slamming loads 469 Hugo Biscaia, Gonçalo Pereira, Manuel G. Silva, Maria T. Cidade DURABILITY OF GFRP/EPOXY RESIN COMPOSITES FOR APPLICATIONS IN CIVIL ENGINEERING 470 Radu Damian, Romeo Ciobanu, Ramona Burlacu Behavior investigation of carbon fiber microelectrode electrocoated with polyaniline thin film in the presence of dopamine 471 Luigi Rossetti, Nicholas Fantuzzi, Erasmo Viola Stress and displacement recovery for functionally graded conical, cylindrical shells and annular plates 472 Nicholas Fantuzzi, Luigi Rossetti, Erasmo Viola Free vibration of laminated shells via GDQ method using third-order theories 473 A. Marzani, M. Miniaci, E. Viola Modellation of composite plates and beams structures in view of experimentally damage identification

474 Zakaria Mouti, Keith Westwood, Darren Long, James Njuguna An experimental investigation into localised low- velocity impact loading on glass fibre-reinforced polyamide automotive product 475 Sophia Sachse, Francesco Silva, Krzysztof Pielichowski, Agnieszka Leszczynska, James Njuguna Compression Strenghth and low-velocity Impact performance of nanocored sandwich composites 476 H Sreedhara, D Harursampath MODELING OF A MULTIFUNCTIONAL STRUCTURE PLUS ALL SOLID-STATE THIN-FILM BATTERY SYSTEM 477 J.-F. Deü, O. Thomas, S. Nezamabadi, A. Lazarus REDUCED ORDER FINITE ELEMENT MODELS FOR NONLINEAR VIBRATIONS OF PIEZOELECTRIC LAYERED BEAMS WITH APPLICATIONS TO MEMS 478 Mehr Angiz Qafari, Mansour Parvizi IMPACT LOAD ANALYSIS BY FREQUENCY DOMAIN METHODS 479 Mohsen Botshekanan Dehkordi, Seyyed Mohammad Reza Khalili, Erasmo Carrera NON-LINEAR DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF ACTIVE HYBRID COMPOSITE BEAM EMBEDDED WITH SMA WIRES 480 K. DOUVON, M. JRAD, A. DAOUADJI, E.M. DAYA A 3D DISCRET LATTICE SPRING MODEL FOR QUASI STATIC AND DYNAMIC RESPONSE IN COMPOSITE MEDIA 481 Giovanni Formica, Walter Lacarbonara DEBONDING-INDUCED FATIGUE LIFE OF A CARBON-NANOTUBE SUPERCAPACITOR 482 M. M. Talo, G. Formica, W. Lacarbonara MODELING OF HYSTERESIS DUE TO CARBON NANOTUBE-MATRIX INTERACTION IN NANOCOMPOSITES 483 Radu Damian, Romeo Ciobanu, Cristina Schreiner Dielectric measurements and electromagnetic simulations of magnetite nanofillers in polymer matrix 484 Mohamad S. Qatu, Mehdi Hajianmaleki THEORY and Analyses of Generrally laminated thick curved beam theory 485 Krishan Kumar, Dineshkumar Harursampath FIXED WING MORPHING MAV MODELLING USING VAM 486 Gerard Guillamet, Albert Turon, Pedro Camanho PLY THICKNESS INFLUENCE ON FREE-EDGE DELAMINAITON IN LAMINATED COMPOSITES 487 G.V. Salmoria, L.F.Vieira, R.A. Paggi, G.A. Testoni, G.M.O. Barra ELETRICAL, MECHANICAL AND WEAR BEHAVIOR OF LAMINATED EPOXY/CARBON FIBER COMPOSITE WITH DIFFERENT CONDUCTING PARTICLES 488 G.V. Salmoria, R.A. Paggi, C.R.M. Roesler, V.E. Beal VISCOELASTIC PROPERTIES OF PA12/MWCNT NANOCOMPOSITES MANUFACTURED BY SELECTIVE LASER SINTERING

489 Silvia Marchisio, Adriano Troia, Giancarlo Cicero, Nicola Pugno, Matteo Pavese EFFICIENT DISPERSION OF CARBON NANOTUBES IN POLYVINYLBUTYRAL AND MECHANICAL PERFORMANCE OF COMPOSITES THEREOF 490 Giulia Lanzara, Lucia Basiricò SELF-RECHARGEABLE COMPOSITE STRUCTURES WITH CARBON NANOTUBES SUPERCAPACITORS 491 Arturo Mora-Lazarini, Mauricio Ortega-Lopez, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Victor Sanchez-Resendiz, Jaime Santoyo-Salazar ELECTRO OPTICAL AND STRUCTURAL CHARACTERIZATION OF CVD-GRAPHENE 492 Alessandro Airoldi, Andrea Baldi, Paolo Bettini, Giuseppe Sala NUMERICAL AND EXPERIMENTAL ANALYSES OF LOCAL STRAIN FIELDS IN COMPOSITES DURING STABLE AND UNSTABLE INTERLAMINAR FRACTURE PROPAGATIONS 493 Su-Gwang Jeong, Jeong-Hun Lee, Sumin Kim improve the thermal performance using microencapsulated pcm for building energy saving 494 Nazita Taghavi, Hassan Nahvi SIZE EFFECTS ON CURVED CARBON NANOTUBES 495 Susana Sousa, António J.M. Ferreira, Maria C.S. Ribeiro Thermal and Mechanical Behaviour Analysis of Micro and Nonoxide Particles modified Thermoset Polymers 496 B. P. Patel, A. K. Gupta, Y. Nath Nonlocal continuum damage modeling of composite laminated plates 497 Susana Sousa, Elisa Cruz, Miguel Lopez, Gonzalo Martinez, Antonio J.M. Ferreira, Maria C.S. Ribeiro Effects of Gamma Irradiated Fibres Reinforcement on Mechanical Behaviour of Polyester Polymer Mortars 498 Yapa D. S. Rajapakse Recent Advances in Composite and Sandwich Structures Research 499 Armin Lohrengel, Rico Schmelter Effects of locale property changing of hardable sheetmetals to transmission of sound 500 Francisco J.G. Silva, Frederico Ferreira, Carlos Costa, Ana C.M. Castro, Maria C.S. Ribeiro OPTIMIZING THE EMBEDDED HEATERS POSITION IN THE PULTRUSION PROCESS USING FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS 502 Federico Bosia, Nicola M. Pugno STRENGTH OPTIMIZATION STRATEGIES IN HIERARCHICAL NANOCOMPOSITES USING FIBRE BUNDLE MODELS 503 M. Herrero, M. Martins, F.M. Labajos, V. Rives, C.M.C. Pereira layered double hydroxide intercalated with 12-AminododecanoATE as a fillers for epoxy resins 504 M. Yaqoob Yasin, Santosh Kapuria, Srikesh Kadakuntla Clipped optimal vibration control of smart piezolaminated beams

505 Sergejs Vidinejevs, Andrey Aniskevich ECONOMICALLY EFFICIENT BINARY VASCULAR SYSTEM FOR SELF-HEALING OF EPOXY POLYMER COMPOSITES 506 Sergejs Vidinejevs, Olga Strekalova, and Andrey Aniskevich DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL SMART STRUCTURAL HEALTH MONITORING MATERIAL 507 Mykhailo Marchuk, Mykola Khomyak, Taras Goriachko A NEW MIXED SCHEME OF FINITE ELEMENTS METHOD FOR INVESTIGATION OF LAYERED COMPOSITES WITH DAMAGES 508 M. Boscolo, J.R. Banerjee LAYER WISE DYNAMIC STIFFNESS METHOD FOR EXACT FREE VIBRATION ANALYSIS OF SANDWICH PLATES 509 M. Pasquali, W. Lacarbonara , G. Park, C. R. Farrar. A NEW ULTRASONIC WAVES-BASED SHM PROCEDURE FOR DELAMINATION DETECTION IN COMPOSITE STRUCTURES 510 Ana M. Amaro, Paulo N. B. Reis, M. Augusta Neto, Marcelo F. S. F. de Moura REPEATED IMPACT ON GLASS FIBER/EPOXY LAMINATES DAMAGED 511 Marco Rossi, Daniele Passeri, Emanuela Tamburri, Maria Letizia Terranova Characterization of polyaniline-detonation nanodiamond nanocomposite fibers by atomic force microscopy based techniques 512 A. M. A. Neves, A. J. M. Ferreira, E. Carrera, M. Cinefra, R. M. N. Jorge, C. M. M. Soares Influence of zig-zag and warping effects on the free vibration of functionally graded sandwich plates according to hyperbolic shear deformation theories 513 Ali Bakhsh Kasaeian, Shiva Nasiri, Mojtaba Ayatollahi Heat Transfer and Vibration Modeling of Oil Industry Turbine Blade Using Numerical Solutions 514 S. EVE, A. THUAULT, B. DUCHEMIN, K. CHARLET, B. ABBEY, F. HOFMANN, A.M. KORSUNSKY A SYNCHROTRON X-RAY STUDY OF THE INNER STRUCTURE AND THE MICRO-MECHANICAL BEHAVIOUR OF SINGLE FLAX FIBRES 515 Karine Charlet, Alexis Béakou characterization AND MODELLING of the middle lamella of FLAX bundle 516 Nicholas H. Erdelyi, Seyed M. Hashemi DYNAMIC FINITE ELEMENT (DFE) MODELING OF MULTIPLEDELAMINATED BEAMS 517 A. Ruimi, R. Abu Al-Rub MODELING FATIGUE IN DRILLSTRING USING COSSERAT-ROD THEORY 518 Enrico Zappino, Erasmo Carrera, Maria Cinefra PANEL FLUTTER ANALYSIS OF COMPOSITE PANEL WITH NON CLASSICAL CONFIGURATION 519 Harun Bayrakdar Microwave absorption properties of Co,Mn spinel ferrite–acrylated epoxy polymer nanocomposites

520 Andrey Nasedkin MULTISCALE MODELING OF 1-3 COMPOSITE PIEZOGENERATOR FROM POROUS PIEZOCERAMICS 521 H. Nahvi, M. Ebrahimi Boroojeni FREE VIBRATIONS OF A ROTATING SINGLE-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE EMBEDDED IN AN ELASTIC MEDIUM BASED ON NONLOCAL ELASTICITY THEORY 522 Dominique Derome, Alessandra Patera, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Jan Carmeliet HYSTERETIC SWELLING AND SHRINKAGE OF WOOD PROBED BY PHASE CONTRAST X-RAY TOMOGRAPHY 523 Jan Carmeliet, Saeed Abbasion, Marjan Sedighi-Gilani, Peter Moonen, Dominique Derome THERMO-HYGRO- MECHANICAL COUPLED MODELING OF WOOD 524 Silvia Marchisio, Diego Manfredi, Sara Biamino, Paolo Fino, Elisa Ambrosio, Claudio Badini, Matteo Pavese CARBON NANOTUBES – NANO-REINFORCED ALUMINIUM WITH IMPROVED YIELD STRENGTH AND TOUGHNESS 525 Ahmed Makradi, Lyazid Bouhala, Salim Belouettar An XFEM Cohesive model for fiber/matrix debonding in Composites: Nucleation and propagation of cracks 526 A. Mikdam, A. Makradi, D. Fiorelli, Y. Koutsawa, S. Belouettar Stochastic optimization construction for design of heterogeneous material with desired physical properties 527 E. I. Volkova, I. A. Jones, R. Brooks, Y. Zhu and E. Bichoutskaia Meso-scale modelLing of shock wave propagations in a Sic/al nanocomposite reinforced with ws2-inorganic fullerenes nanoparticles 528 H. Sam Huang, Sangwook Sihn, Vikas Varshney, Dave P. Anderson, Ajit K. Roy A Bottom-up method for prediction of the transverse thermal conductivity of carbon pitch fibers 529 Ching Yern Chee, Yun Chen Ching, and Iskandar I.I. Mechanical and Optical Properties of Nanoclay Reinforced Polyactides Based Green Film 530 John P. Dear composite STRUCTURES AT THEIR LIMIT 531 A. Sinan Oktem, Sarp Adali, Ismail Kucuk BUCKLING ANALYSIS OF SHEAR DEFORMABLE POLYMER/CLAY NANOCOMPOSITE LAMINATES VIA A MICROMECHANICS APPROACH 532 Erasmo Carrera, Claudia Chinosi, Maria Cinefra , Lucia Della Croce MITC-TYPE SHELL ELEMENTS BASED IN RMVT UNIFIED FORMULATION 533 Daniela Crisafulli, Gaetano Giunta, Salim Belouettar, Erasmo Carrera THERMO-MECHANICAL ANALYSIS OF FUNCTIONALLY GRADED BEAMS VIA HIERARCHICAL MODELLING 534 Maria Cinefra, Gerlando Augello, Erasmo Carrera Benchmarking of commercial codes by refined shell finite element models in the analysis of composite structures

535 Yao Koutsawa, Gaetano Giunta, Salim Belouettar HIERARCHICAL MODELLING OF PIEZO-ELECTRIC THREE-DIMENSIONAL BEAMS VIA HIERARCHICAL MODELLING 536 Shuhong Xu, Chunlei Wang, Wei Lei, Yiping Cui Bonding and Optical Characters of Ternary Structures: ZnSe(Te), ZnS(Te), ZnS(Se) and CdSe(Te), CdS(Te), CdS(Se) Clusters 537 Giacomo Perfetti, Bahri Widjanarko TOUGHENING STRATEGIES FOR INFUSION GRADE VINYL ESTER RESINS 538 C.G. Cho, Gee-Joo Ha, and Luciano Feo Seismic Improvement of RC Beam-Column Joints using Hexagonal CFRP Bars Combined with CFRP Sheets 539 Dilara Kocak, E. Oya Burcak, S.Ilker Mistik, Nigar Merdan INVESTIGATION OF MECHANICAL PROPERTIES OF MODIFIED PALM BASED COMPOSITES 541 Nigar Merdan, Erhan Sancak, Dilara Kocak, Metin Yuksek, S.İlker Mistik INVESTIGATION OF SOUND ABSORPTION PROPERTIES OF ENVIRONMENTALLY MODIFIED LUFFA CYLINDRICA / POLYURETHANE COMPOSITES 542 Noridah Mohamad, Wahid Omar, Redzuan Abdullah Study on Structural Performance of Precast Lightweight Foamed Concrete Sandwich Panel as a Load Bearing Wall under Axial Load 543 Omid Rahmani, S. Mohammad R. Khalili, Ole Thybo Thomsen HIGHER-ORDER DYNAMIC RESPONSE OF IN-PLANE PRESTRESSED CYLINDRICAL SANDWICH SHELLS WITH TRANSVERSELY COMPLIANT CORE UNDER LOW-VELOCITY IMPACT 544 Samuel C. R. Furtado, Aurélio L. Araújo, Arlindo Silva, Cristiano Alves INVERSE CHARACTERIZATION OF JUTE FIBER COMPOSITES 545 Il Sung Seo Low observable RADOME COMPOSED of glass/epoxy, foam CORE and FSS 546 J.G. Kim, Y.J. Hwang, S.H. Yoon, D.G. Lee Improvement of the fracture toughness of adhesively bonded stainless steel joints with aramid fibers at cryogenic temperatures 547 Soon Ho Yoon, Ki Hyun Kim and Dai Gil Lee Improvement of the adhesive peel strength of the secondary barrier with level difference for LNG containment system 548 Salvatore Brischetto, Erasmo Carrera THERMO-ELECTRO-MECHANICAl coupling effects in static and free vibration analysis of composite plates and shells 549 Geremia Puccini Fuselage One piece Barrel. History of a product technology revolution