Computational Mechanics of Laminted plates

My research

PhD Thesis  produced following publications:
1. Stability and Vibration of Mindlin Sector Plates: An Analytical Approach, AIAA JOURNAL, Ashish Sharma, H.B. Sharda and Y. Nath, Vol. 43, No. 5, May 2005, pp. 1109-1116 
2. Stability and vibration of thick laminated composite sector plates, Ashish Sharma, H.B. Sharda and Y. Nath, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Vol. 287, 2005, pp. 1-23
3. Non-linear analysis of moderately thick sector plates, Y. Nath , H.B. Sharda and Ashish Sharma, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 10 (2005) 765-778
4. Nonlinear transient analysis of moderately thick laminated composite sector plates, Ashish Sharma, Y. Nath and H.B. Sharda, Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation

• The thesis basically involved obtaining different solutions of five simultaneous partial differential equations
• Two-dimensional Chebyshev polynomials were used for spatial discretization
• Houbolt time-marching was used for temporal discretization for simulating the non-linear dynamic model
• The code was written in C++ on LINUX platform
• For linear algebra, the C++ library named TNT/JAMA were used
• For word-processing,  pdflatex was used
• For Figures & Plots, gnuplot and xfig were used