RETRACTED
This article has been retracted as it is found to contain a substantial amount of materials from the previously published papers: (1) Ionel Chirica, Sorin Dumitru Musat, Raluca Chirica, and Elena-Felicia Beznea, “Torsional behaviour of the ship hull composite model,” Comput. Mater. Sci., Vol. 50, pp. 1381-1386, 2011; (2) Ion Raluca, Musat Sorin Dumitru, Chirica Ionel, Boazu Doina, and Beznea Elena Felicia, “Torsion analysis of ship hull made of composite materials,” Materiale Plastice, Vol. 47, Issue 3, pp. 364-369, 2010; (3) Ion Raluca, Musat Sorin Dumitru, Chirica Ionel, Boazu Doina, and Beznea Elena-Felicia, “Torsional analysis of ship hull model,” The Annals of University “Dunarea De Jos” of Galati, Fascicle VIII, 2009 (XV), ISSN 1221-4590, Issue 2, Tribology.
Mathematical Problems in Engineering
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 212346, 17 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/212346
Research Article
A Numerical Model for Torsion Analysis of Composite Ship Hulls
“Dunarea de Jos” University of Galati, Domneasca Street, 47, 800008 Galati, Romania
Received 17 July 2011; Revised 7 November 2011; Accepted 10 November 2011
Academic Editor: Ming Li
Copyright © 2012 Ionel Chirica and Elena-Felicia Beznea. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
A new methodology based on a macroelement model proposed for torsional behaviour of the ship hull made of composite material is proposed in this paper. A computer program has been developed for the elastic analysis of linear torsion. The results are compared with the FEM-based licensed soft COSMOS/M results and measurements on the scale simplified model of a container ship, made of composite materials.