Research Article
Thermally Induced Bistable Functionally Graded Nanocomposite Plate
Table 7
Comparison of snap-through forces for bistable FG-CNTRC laminates with the same out-of-plane displacement.
| | FGX-CNTRC | FGO-CNTRC |
| Volume fractions | 0.12 | 0.17 | 0.28 | 0.12 | 0.17 | 0.28 | Curing temperature | 525 | 473 | 400 | 535 | 478 | 392 | Snap-through force (N) | FEM | 2.50 | 4.00 | 5.59 | 2.38 | 3.32 | 4.44 | Analytical | 2.70 | 4.28 | 6.00 | 2.27 | 3.41 | 4.89 | Error (%) | 8 | 7 | 7.3 | 4.6 | 2.7 | 10.1 |
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