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LIST OF SYMBOLS AND ABBREVIATIONS

SYMBOLS: li ij ij

Mid-plane strains Mid-plane curvatures Lengths of unit cell Strains Curvatures Volume segment of 1-tow element Volume segment of 2-tow element Ratio of volume Global stiffness Thickness of the lamina/tow Width of the tow Component of plate extensional stiffness Component of plate coupling stiffness Component of plate bending stiffness In-plane forces per unit length Thermal in-plane force per unit length

Bending moments per unit length about x- and y-axis, respectively Twisting moment per unit length Thermal bending moments per unit length about x- and yaxis, respectively Twisting thermal moment per unit length

Strain in x- and y-direction, respectively

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, , , , ( ) ( ) , , -

In-plane shear strain Curvature in x- and y-direction, respectively Twisting curvature Nonlinear expression Mass moment of inertia Displacement in x-, y- and z-direction, respectively Lagrange interpolation function Hermite interpolation function Natural coordinate of x- and y-axis Stiffness matrix Geometric stiffness matrix Force vector Thermal force vector Radial basis function Monomial function Shape functions of meshfree for displacement in in x-, yand z-direction, respectively Shape functions of meshfree for rotation with respect toxand y-axes, respectively Kronecker delta property Buckling load Critical buckling load Longitudinal Youngs modulus Transverse Youngs modulus Poissons ratio in 12 plane respectively Thickness of plate Length of plate Width of plate Longitudinal and Transverse coefficient of thermal expansion, respectively Change in temperature Transformed lamina coefficients of thermal expansion

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Critical temperature Distributed transverse load

ABBREVIATION :

BWF FEM MFree RBF RVC RUC TWF

Biaxial weave fabric Finite element method Meshfree method Radial basis function Representative volume cell Representative unit cell Triaxial weave fabric