Thermally Induced Bistable Functionally Graded Nanocomposite Plate

Table 8

Snap-through forces for bistable FG-CNTRC laminates with different volume fraction exponents, n.

		FGX-CNTRC			FGO-CNTRC
		0.12	0.17	0.28	0.12	0.17	0.28
Snap-through force (N)	n = 0.5	1.099	1.718	2.397	1.011	1.556	2.175
	n = 1	1.043	1.653	2.331	0.882	1.362	1.930
	n = 1.5	1.026	1.617	2.308	0.801	1.221	1.723
	n = 2	0.984	1.596	2.282	0.731	1.096	1.584
Curing temperature (K)	n = 0.5	515	462	393	539	481	395
	n = 1	431	400	358	436	403	353
	n = 1.5	399	376	345	398	374	337
	n = 2	380	363	341	377	358	328