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Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Bharath University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
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Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Bharath University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India. .
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Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Bharath University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
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Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Bharath University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
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Student, Department of Civil Engineering, Bharath University, Chennai, Tamilnadu, India.
Funicular
shell,
I. INTRODUCTION
Shells belong to the class of stressed skin structures
which, because of their geometry and small flexural rigidity of
the skin, tend to carry loads primarily by direct stresses acting in
their plane. In the design of new forms of composite shell
structures the conventional practice is to select the geometry of
shell first and then making the stress analysis. In this process no
deliberated effort is taken to ensure the desirable state of stress
in the material. Perhaps it is more logical to reverse this process.
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II. METHODOLOGY
A. Materials
Composite funicular shell specimens of various rises are
prepared with Glass Fibre, Resin, Gel Coat, Pigment, Catalyst
and Accelerator. To investigate the influence of different rises
on the ultimate strength of shallow funicular shells, specimens
are prepared and designated as follows.
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Load vs Deflection
DEFLECTION
R1
1
0.5
DEFLECTION
R2
DEFLECTION
R3
0.2
0.4
0.6
LOAD (kN)
LOAD (kN)
1.5
DEFLECTION (mm)
0.8
0.7
0.6
0.5
0.4
0.3
0.2
0.1
0
DEFLECTION
R1
DEFLECTION
R2
DEFLECTION
R3
0
DEFLECTION (mm)
Load vs Deflection
LOAD (kN)
1.5
1
DEFLECTION
R1
0.5
DEFLECTION
R2
0
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
DEFLECTION
R3
Type
Rise (h)
DEFLECTION (mm)
Span/Rise
ratio ()
Ultimate
Load,
(Pu)
(kN)
13.51
7.35
5.10
2.92
3.73
3.91
(cm)
Figure 9 Load vs Deflection, W2
SFS I
SFS II
SFS III
Load vs Deflection
LOAD (kN)
1.5
DEFLECTION
R1
0.5
DEFLECTION
R2
0
0
0.2
0.4
0.6
DEFLECTION (mm)
3.7
6.8
9.8
DEFLECTION
R3
5
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REFERENCES
Rise cm
0
0
10
15
Rise (cm)
Span/Rise ratio,
()
Poly.
(Span/Rise
ratio, () )
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4
3
2
1
0
0
10
15
Span/Rise Ratio
V. CONCLUSIONS
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