چکیده
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In this work, as a first attempt, the thermal behavior of nanocomposite sandwich conical shells under internal
axisymmetric moving heat flux based on the non-Fourier heat transfer is investigated. In order to capture the
influences of the finite heat wave speed, the hyperbolic heat transfer equation is used. The face sheets of the
nanocomposite sandwich shell are made of graphene platelets (GPLs) reinforced polymer matrix. The core layer
is fabricated from a GPLs reinforced porous composite material. In both core layer and face sheets, GPLs have
uniform distribution and random orientation. Through a two-dimensional layerwise approach, the differential
quadrature method (DQM) and the nonuniform rational basis spline (NURBS) curves based multi-step technique
are employed to discretize the governing equations in the spatial and temporal domains, respectively. The
performance of the present method is demonstrated by performing convergence study and comparing the results
in the limit cases with those reported in literature. Following the approach validation, parametric studies are
carried out to elucidate the influences of heat flux speed, porosity distribution and amounts, GPLs weight
fractions and the shell-thickness-to-length ratio on the thermal responses of the sandwich conical shells under
investigation. The results show that the speed of moving heat flux and GPLs weight fractions have significant
effects on the thermal responses of the shells. But the porosity distribution and amounts have less effect on the
thermal behavior of the shell. In addition, the increase of the heat flux speed decreases the traveled distance by
the heat wave front and the increase of the weight fraction of GPLs increases the heat wave speed.
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