Smart adaptive structures and structronic systems have been increasingly investigated and developed in the last two decades. Although smart structures made of piezoelectrics, shape-memory materials, electrostrictive materials, and electro-/magnetorheological fluids have been evaluated extensively, studies of magnetostrictive continua, especially generic mathematical model(s), are still relative...

A new two-eigenfunctions theory, using the amplitude deflection and the generalized curvature as two fundamental eigenfunctions, is proposed for the free vibration solutions of a rectangular Mindlin plate. The three classical eigenvalue differential equations of a Mindlin plate are reformulated to arrive at two new eigenvalue differential equations for the proposed theory. The closed form eigen...

This paper introduces a fast high-resolution imaging algorithm designed for ultra-wideband radar, and combines modified Kirchhoff migration and frequency-wavenumber (F-K) migration. The proposed algorithm also uses the texture method and inverse boundary scattering transform to calculate efficiently the integral arising in modified Kirchhoff migration, and thus enabling the integral in the F-K ...

(1) and c is the speed of light in vacuum. Estimate the time-average power P (i.e., the radiation) that escapes from the end of the cable using vector (or scalar) Huygens-Kirchhoff diffraction theory for the case that the cable is excited with a TEM wave with λ b. Compare the cases of a coaxial cable by itself, and one with its outer conductor attached to a ground plane such that the radiation ...

The first recipient of the IEEE GUSTAV ROBERT KIRCHHOFF AWARD: Professor Leon O. Chua This new technical field award of the IEEE is given “For outstanding contributions to the fundamentals of any aspect of electronic circuits and systems that has a long term significance or impact.” The first recipient, made public in December 2004, is Professor Leon O. Chua, “For seminal contributions to the f...

Theoretical and experimental studies of the electromagnetic response of semicontinuous metal films are presented. A scaling theory is developed by solving the surface plasmon eigenproblem. The short-range correlations in the governing Kirchhoff Hamiltonian result in delocalization of the surface plasmon eigenmodes. Although their relative weight in the spectrum becomes asymptotically small for ...

The transient response of a flat circular plate to a sudden impact has been studied experimentally and theoretically. High-speed electronic speckle pattern interferometry reveals the presence of pulses that travel around the edge of the plate ahead of the bending motion initiated by the strike. It is found that the transient motion of the plate is well described by Kirchhoff thin-plate theory o...

A meshfree computational method is proposed in this paper to solve Kirchhoff plate problems of various geometries. The deflection of the thin plate is approximated by using a Hermite-type radial basis function approximation technique. The standard Galerkin method is adopted to discretize the governing partial differential equations which were derived from using the Kirchhoff’s plate theory. The...

An acoustic prediction capability for supersonic axisymmetric jets was developed on the basis of OVERFLOW Navier-Stokes CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) code of NASA Langley Research Center. Reynolds-averaged turbulent stresses in the flow fie ld are modeled with the aid of Spalart-Alimaras one-equation turbulence modeL Appropriate acoustic and outflow boundary conditions were implemented to ...

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