Original Article
  • Prediction of Interlaminar Shear Stress in Laminated Composites using Hybrid PINN incorporated with Anisotropic Hertzian Contact Theory

  • Sungwook Cho*, Seong S. Cheon*†

  • * Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduated School, Kongju National University

  • 이방성 헤르츠 접촉 이론을 도입한 Hybrid PINN 기반 적층 복합재의 층간 전단 응력 예측

  • 조성욱* · 전성식*†

  • This article is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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Correspondence to

  • Seong S. Cheon

  • Department of Mechanical Engineering, Graduated School, Kongju National University

  • E-mail: sscheon@kongju.ac.kr