• Title of article

    Applicability Evidence of Constructal Design in Structural Engineering: Case Study of Biaxial Elasto-Plastic Buckling of Square Steel Plates with Elliptical Cutout

  • Author/Authors

    da Silveira, Thiago School of Engineering - Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil , Torres Pinto, Vinícius School of Engineering - Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil , Sarasol Neufeld, João Pedro Federal University of Pampa (Unipampa) - Campus Alegrete, Alegrete, Brazil , Pavlovic, Ana Department of Industrial Engineering - Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna (UNIBO), Bologna, Italy , Oliveira Rocha, Luiz Alberto Department of Mechanical Engineering - University of Vale do Rio dos Sinos (Unisinos), São Leopoldo, Brazil , Domingues dos Santos, Elizaldo School of Engineering - Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil , André Isoldi, Liércio School of Engineering - Federal University of Rio Grande (FURG), Rio Grande, Brazil

  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    922
  • To page
    934
  • Abstract
    The application of the Constructal Design method in Heat Transfer and Fluid Mechanics areas is an already consecrated approach to geometrically evaluate these flow engineering systems. However, this approach in Mechanics of Materials realm is not yet widely used, since one can find only few publications about it in literature. The Constructal Design is based on the Constructal Law, a physical law that explains the universal phenomenon of evolution of any finite size flow system. Therefore, the main goal here is to show that the Constructal Design can also be used in dedicated Structural Engineering problems as an effective method for geometric evaluation. The obtained results prove the Constructal Design applicability definitively in Mechanics of Materials.
  • Keywords
    Constructal Design Method , Constructal Law , Geometric Evaluation , Biaxial Elasto-Plastic Buckling , Perforated Plate
  • Journal title
    Journal of Applied and Computational Mechanics
  • Serial Year
    2021
  • Record number

    2560033