Introduction The wave propagation in magneto-electro-elastic materials has gained considerable importance since last decade. The electro-magneto-elastic materials exhibit a desirable coupling effect between electric and magnetic fields, which are useful in smart structure applications. These materials have the capacity to convert one form of energy namely, magnetic, electric and mechanical ener...

This study presents the effect of edge ratio and fiber orientation on free vibration analysis of simply supported antisymmetric thin and thick laminated composite plates (LCP) on elastic foundation. In the analysis, the foundation is modeled as two parameters Pasternak and Winkler type foundation. The equation of motion for laminated rectangular plates resting on elastic foundation is obtained ...

We examine the elastic shear waves generated in a thin pre-stressed elastomer layer that is sandwiched between two relatively thick steel plates and is subjected to an elastic shear wave traveling in one of the steel plates. The elastomer layer has been deformed in uni-axial strain in advance, producing in the layer very large axial and lateral compressive stresses of the order of its bulk modu...

We use fully-coupled three-dimensional computer simulations to examine aerodynamics of elastic wings oscillating at resonance. Wings are modeled as planar elastic plates plunging sinusoidally at a low Reynolds number. The wings are tilted from horizontal, thereby generating asymmetric flow patterns and non-zero net aerodynamic forces. Our simulations reveal that resonance oscillations of elasti...

We present a methodology for the efficient numerical solution of eigenvalue problems of full three-dimensional elasticity for thin elastic structures, such as shells, plates and rods of arbitrary geometry, discretized by the finite element method. Such problems are solved by iterative methods, which, however, are known to suffer from slow convergence or even convergence failure, when the thickn...

It is known that design of elastic cloaks is much more challenging than that of acoustic cloaks, cloaks of electromagnetic waves or scalar problems of antiplane shear. In this paper, we address fully the fourth-order problem and develop a model of a broadband invisibility cloak for channelling flexural waves in thin plates around finite inclusions. We also discuss an option to employ efficientl...

An analysis of the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) unsteady convective flow of a viscoelastic (second grade) fluid through a porous medium filled in a vertical channel is carried out. One of the porous plates of the channelthrough which the fluid is injected is subjected to a slip-flow condition and the other through which the fluid is sucked to a no-slip condition. The pressure gradient in the chann...

The question motivating the present study is whether metal sandwich plates with su3ciently strong cores are able to sustain substantially larger blast loads than monolithic solid plates of the same material and total mass. Circular plates clamped at their edges are considered under blast loads large enough to produce substantial de5ections. The material is elastic–perfectly plastic. Material st...

Abstract-The fundamental solutions and the boundary element method for obtaining numerical solutions of nonlinear Reissner plates on an elastic foundation are presented in the paper. The derivation of the fundamental solutions is mainly based on two of Hu’s functions and the resolution method of differential operator. An incremental form of the boundary integral equations is suggested to achiev...