Flat slab subduction has been attributed to various causes including mantle wedge dynamics, overriding by the upper plate, age of the subducting plate, and subduction of anomalously thick oceanic crust. One often favored explanation for flat slabs is the subduction of buoyant features on the oceanic plate in the form of an aseismic-ridge or oceanic plateau. We show through plate tectonic recons...

This paper presents the bending analysis of annular plates by the indirect Trefftz boundary approach. The formulation for thin and thick plates is based on the Kirchhoff plate theory and the Reissner plate theory. The governing equations are therefore a fourth-order boundary value problem and a sixth-order boundary value problem, respectively. The Trefftz method employs the complete set of solu...

The dynamic performance of structures under traveling loads should be exactly analyzed to have a safe and reasonable structural design. Different higher-order shear deformation theories are proposed in this paper to analyze the dynamic stability of thick elastic plates carrying a moving mass. The displacement fields of different theories are chosen based upon variations along the thickness as c...

the main aim is to study the two dimensional axisymmetric problem of thick circular plate in modified couple stress theory with heat and mass diffusive sources. the thermoelastic theories with mass diffusion developed by sherief et al. [1] and kumar and kansal [2] have been used to investigate the problem. laplace and hankel transforms technique is applied to obtain the solutions of the governi...

Piezoelectric bimorph actuation has been successfully used in numerous types of microdevices, most notably micropumps. However, even for the simple case of circular geometry, analytical treatments are severely limited. This study utilized the finite-element method to optimize the deflection of a circular bimorph consisting of a single piezoelectric actuator, bonding material and elastic plate o...

this paper presents the bending analysis of annular plates by the indirect trefftz boundary approach. the formulation for thin and thick plates is based on the kirchhoff plate theory and the reissner plate theory. the governing equations are therefore a fourth-order boundary value problem and a sixth-order boundary value problem, respectively. the trefftz method employs the complete set of solu...

The effect of thick carpet on the accuracy of bathroom scales was investigated using two analogue scales and two digital strain gauge scales. A mass range of 0Kg – 104Kg was used. Loading history was found to have a significant effect on analogue scales, and the experiments were designed with this in mind. The mean spring constant of a Hanson analogue scale system was found to be 12.13±0.30KNm;...

We report on spectral phase retrieval of 43 MHz, ∼100  fs, 3.3 μm pulses at energies down to 8.9 pJ by a modified interferometric field autocorrelation method. The simple setup consists of a Michelson interferometer, a 266 μm thick AgGaSe2 crystal, and a homemade spectrometer with an InGaAs point detector, which is readily applicable to measuring a 20 fs (1.8 cycles) pulse at 3.3 μm....

Abstract This work investigates the application of ultrasonic vibration to steel joints formed by gas metal arc welding. Welding is done using a active welding source with current 120–160 A, 0.8-mm-diameter wire and 10 L/min CO2 flow. The distance from torch horn 120 mm. Ultrasonic most affects weld when position mm increases penetration speed 190 (275) mm/min for 5-mm-thick (10-mm-thick) plate...