* Correspondence: [email protected] Department of Mathematics, KAIST, 373-1 Guseong-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 305-701, South Korea Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract The q-analogues of many well known formulas are derived by using several results of q-Bernoulli, q-Euler numbers and polynomials. The q-analogues of ζ-type functions are given by usi...

Experiments on micro- and nano-mechanical systems (M/NEMS) have shown that their behavior under bending loads departs in many cases from the classical predictions using Euler-Bernoulli theory and Hooke's law. This anomalous response has usually been seen as a dependence of the material properties on the size of the structure, in particular thickness. A theoretical model that allows for quantita...

Experiments on Microand Nano-mechanical systems (M/NEMS) have shown that their behavior upon bending loads departs in many cases from the classical predictions using Euler-Bernoulli theory and Hooke’s law. This anomalous response has usually been seen as a dependence of the material properties with the size of the structure, in particular thickness. A theoretical model that allows for quantitat...

Fiber-reinforced composites, due to their high specific strength, and stiffness, which can be tailored depending on the design requirement, are fast replacing the traditional metallic structures in the weight sensitive aerospace and aircraft industries. An analysis Timoshenko beam theory for complex composite beams is presented. Composite materials have considerable potential for wide use in ai...

In this paper a modular, computationally efficient, and numerically stable method is presented, which allows to obtain the dynamic model of a robot constituted by flexible links having variable crosssection and subjected to generic ending forces and torques and to the gravity actions. This method is based on the use of admissible deformation functions of wavelet type, obtained by using the Inst...

This paper presents a method for the dynamic modeling of parallel robots with flexible links and rigid moving platform based on finite element theory. The relation between elastic displacements of links is investigated, taking into consideration the coupling effects of elastic motion and rigid motion. The kinematic and dynamic constraint conditions of elastic displacements of flexible parallel ...

We connect and generalize Matiyasevich’s identity #0102 with Bernoulli numbers and an identity of Candelpergher, Coppo and Delabaere on Ramanujan summation of the divergent series of the infinite sum of the harmonic numbers. The formulae are analytic continuation of Euler sums and lead to new recursion relations for derivatives of Bernoulli numbers. The techniques used are contour integration, ...

We use contour integrals and the Cauchy residue theorem in order to derive several summation formulas, in terms of the higher-order Bernoulli polynomials and the ordinary Bernoulli and Euler polynomials, for a remarkably general family of secant sums. Numerous (known or new) special cases are shown to follow readily from the summation formulas presented in this paper. 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rig...

The earliest example of bifurcation is the buckling of of an elastic beam. In engineering, buckling is a failure mode characterized by a sudden failure of a structure subjected to high compressive stresses, where the actual compressive stresses at failure are greater than the ultimate compressive stresses that the material is capable of withstanding. This mode of failure is also described as fa...