Abstract This paper presents a beam theory for analyzing the static response of slightly curved three-layer beams with interlayer slip. Since are supposed to be immovably supported, membrane stresses develop even at moderately large deflections and becomes geometrically nonlinear. The is based on layerwise application Euler–Bernoulli linear elastic constitutive law interlaminar displacements. I...

In this paper, we focus on the problem of effectively supporting a large number of small group multicasts in optical burst switched (OBS) networks. We first propose a multicast scheme for small group multicast in OBS networks. To reduce burst loss due to potential burst contentions, a deflection routing scheme for multicast is proposed. We then develop an analytical model to evaluate the perfor...