Abstract Fusion welding is widely used to join different parts to each other in various industries. However, welding-induced distortions sometimes cause problems such as misalignment during assembling and impose costs for their removal. Thus, it is imperative to predict and mitigate these problems to improve weldment quality and also reduce fabrication costs. In this study, a dissimilar welded structure was first simulated with 3D solid and shell elements in ANSYS finite element software, and welding-induced deformations were then calculated. Afterwards, the constructed weldment was simulated using an inherent deformation method, and its results were compared with experimental measurements and 3D answers. This comparison showed that it was possible to simulate a dissimilar welded joint using an inherent deformation method in order to reduce the time and cost of modeling evenat the expense of a small error.

Recently, graphene sheets have shown significant potential for environmental engineering applications such as wastewater treatment. Different non-classical theories have been used for modeling of such nano-sized systems to take account of the effect of small length scale. Among all size-dependent theories, the nonlocal elasticity theory has been commonly used to examine the stability of nano-sized structures. Some research works have been reported about the mechanical behavior of rectangular nanoplates with the consideration of thermal effects. However, in comparison with the rectangular graphene sheets, research works about the nanoplates of circular shape are very limited, especially for the buckling properties with thermal effects. Hence, in this paper, an axisymmetric buckling analysis of circular single-layered graphene sheets (SLGS) is presented by decoupling the nonlocal equations of Eringen theory. Constitutive relations are modified to describe the nonlocal effects. The governing equations are derived using equilibrium equations of the circular plate in polar coordinates. Numerical solutions for buckling loads are computed using Galerkin method. It is shown that nonlocal effects play an important role in the buckling of circular nanoplates. The effects of the small scale on the buckling loads considering various parameters such as the radius of the plate, radius-to-thickness ratio, temperature change and mode numbers are investigated.