a new approach for analyzing cracked problems in 2d orthotropic materials using the well-known element free galerkin method and orthotropic enrichment functions is proposed. the element free galerkin method is a meshfree method which enables discontinuous problems to be modeled efficiently. in this study, element free galerkin is extrinsically enriched by the recently developed crack-tip orthot...

in this paper, dynamic analysis of the composite truncated sandwich conical shells (stcs) with various boundary conditions subjected to low velocity impact was studied analytically, based on higher order sandwich panel theory. impact was assumed to occur normally over to the top face-sheet and the contact force history is predicted using two solution models of the motion are derived based on ha...

We propose a new method for the study of the chiral properties of the ground state in QFT’s based on the computation of the probability distribution function of the chiral condensate. It can be applied directly in the chiral limit and therefore no mass extrapolations are needed. Furthermore this approach allows to write up equations relating the chiral condensate with quantities computable by s...