clc clear close all %COMPRESSION % This script is for the calculation of effective compression modulus B (dimensionless) % Step 1: defination of variables h1_eff = 0:0.01:1; % overall thickness of material 1 h1_eff = h1_eff'; [row, column] = size(h1_eff); h2_eff = ones([row, column]) - h1_eff; % overall thickness of material 2 E_ratio = [0.01; 0.1; 1; 10; 100]; % modulus ratio of materials 1/2 B_bar = zeros(row, length(E_ratio)); % Step 2: calculation of effective compression modulus B for i = 1:5 % index for E_ratio B_bar(:,i) = 1./(h1_eff + E_ratio(i)*h2_eff); % dimensionless effective compression modulus B end % Step 3: plot results % Plot the influence of h1_eff on B_bar figure(1) for i = 1:5 plot(h1_eff, B_bar(:,i), 'LineWidth',1); hold on end hold off % Figure setup xlim([0,1]); ylim([0,10]); xlabel('Effective h_{1} / h','FontSize',11); ylabel('Normalized compression modulus E_{eff} / E_{1}','FontSize',11); legend({'E_{ratio} = 0.01','E_{ratio} = 0.1','E_{ratio} = 1','E_{ratio} = 10','E_{ratio} = 100'},'FontSize',11); %BENDING clc clear close all z_n = 1; %stack height n = 4; %number of layers z_vec = 0:(z_n/n):z_n; z_num = zeros(n); z_den = zeros(n); E_ratio = [0.01; 0.1; 1; 10; 100]; for i = [2:length(z_vec)] if mod(i,2) == 0 %even z_num(i) = E_ratio*((z_vec(i)^2/z_n^2)-(z_vec(i-1)^2/z_n^2)); z_den(i) = E_ratio*((z_vec(i)/z_n)-(z_vec(i-1)/z_n)); else %odd z_num(i) = ((z_vec(i)^2/z_n^2)-(z_vec(i-1)^2/z_n^2)); z_den(i) = ((z_vec(i)/z_n)-(z_vec(i-1)/z_n)); end end z_num z_den zc = sum(z_num)/(2*sum(z_den)) %location of neutral axis E = zeros(n,1); for i = [2:length(z_vec)] if mod(i,2) == 0 % for even items E(i) = E_ratio*(((z_vec(i)/z_n)-(zc/z_n))^3-((z_vec(i-1)/z_n)-(zc/z_n))^3); else % for odd items E(i) = (((z_vec(i)/z_n)-(zc/z_n))^3-((z_vec(i-1)/z_n)-(zc/z_n))^3); end end E E_eff = 4*sum(E)