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Professor M. H. Toorani

Structures, Materials and Propulsion Laboratory, Institute for Aerospace Research,
National Research Council, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
and
Nuclear Engineering Department, Babcock & Wilcox Canada, Cambridge, Canada

Selected Publications:
Toorani, M. H. and Lakis, A. A., “General Equations of Anisotropic Plates and Shells Including Transverse Shear Deformations, Rotary Inertia and Initial Curvature Effects”. Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 237, no. 4, 2000, pp. 561-615.
M.H. Toorani and A.A. Lakis, Dynamic analysis of anisotropic cylindrical shells containing flowing fluid, J. Press Vess. Tech. Trans. ASME, vol. 123, pp. 454–460, 2001
Toorani MH, Lakis AA. Shear deformation in dynamic analysis of anisotropic laminated open cylindrical shells filled with or subjected to a flowing fluid. Comput Methods Appl Mech Eng 2001;190:4929–4966.
Toorani, M. H.; Lakis, A. A. (2002a): Dynamics Behaviour of Axisymmetric and Beam-Like Anisotropic Cylindrical Shells Conveying Fluid. Journal of Sound and Vibration, vol. 259(2), pp. 265-298.
Toorani, M. H.; Lakis, A. A. (2002b): Geometrically non-linear dynamics of anisotropic open cylindrical shells with a refined shell theory. Technical Report, EPM-RT-01-07, Polytechnique de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
M.H. Toorani, Dynamics of the geometrically non-linear analysis of anisotropic laminated cylindrical shells, International Journal of Non-Linear 
Mechanics 38 (2003) 1315–1335. 

M.H. Toorani, A.A. Lakis, Large amplitude vibrations of anisotropic cylindrical 
shells, Computers & Structures 82 (2004) 2015–2025.
Toorani MH, Lakis AA. Swelling effect on the dynamic behaviour of composite cylindrical shells conveying fluid. Int J Numer Methods Fluids 2006;50: 397–420.
Toorani MH, Lakis AA. Free vibrations of non-uniform composite cylindrical shells. Nucl Eng Des 2006;236:1748–1758.
Lakis, A. A.; Bursuc, G.; Toorani, M. H. (2009a): Sloshing Effect on the Dynamics Behaviour of Horizontal Cylindrical Shells. International Journal of Nuclear Engineering and Design, vol. 239, pp. 1193-1206.
Lakis, A. A.; Toorani, M. H (2009b): Non-Linear Axial Flow-Induced Vibrations of Composite Cylindrical Shells. 7th EUROMECH Solid Mechanics Conference, Lisbon, Portugal.
Lakis A. A., Toorani M. H., Kerboua Y., Esmailzadeh M. and Sabri F., “Theory, analysis and design of fluid-shell structures”, Tech Science Press, SL, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp 155-185, 2011
A.A. Lakis, M.H. Toorani, Y. Kerboua, M. Esmailzadeh, F. Sabri, “Dynamic analysis of fluid-shell structures”, 15th International Conference on Experimental Mechanics (ICEM15), Paper No. 2793, Porto, Portugal, 22-27 July, 2012

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