The bending of a rectangular elastic plate under uniform distributed load and simply supported at the corners by equal-leg angles is studied analytically. The width of the supporting legs can be varied symmetrically about the plate axes giving mixed boundary conditions with supported and free edges. The solution is set up by using the Le'vy-Na'dai approach and the mixed boundary equation at the...

The present paper examines the contact problem related to shear punch through a rigid strip bonded to a nonhomogeneous medium. The nonhomogeneous medium is bonded to another nonhomogeneous medium. The strip is perpendicular to the y-axis and parallel to the x-axis. It is assumed that there is perfect bonding at the common plane surface of two nonhomogeneousmedia. Using Fourier cosine transforms...

Compactly supported linear semiorthogonal B-spline wavelets together with their dual wavelets are developed to approximate the solutions of nonlinear Fredholm-Hammerstein integral equations. Properties of these wavelets are first presented; these properties are then utilized to reduce the computation of integral equations to some algebraic equations. The method is computationally attractive, an...

We investigate the scattering of plane harmonic compression and shear waves by a Griffith crack in an infinite isotropic dielectric polymer. The dielectric polymer is permeated by a uniform electric field normal to the crack face, and the incoming wave is applied in an arbitrary direction. By the use of Fourier transforms, we reduce the problem to that of solving two simultaneous dual integral ...