Wen-Jei Yang Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan 1 A n experimental study is performed to investigate the pressure drop distribution and turbulence intensity for airflow through a stack of parallel plates with periodic interruptions. The interrupted surfaces are constructed in an offset-strip f6rm and a perforated form. Hot...

AbstructIn basic electrostatics, the formula for the capacitance of parallel-plate capacitors is derived, for the case that the spacing between the electrodes is very small compared to the length or width of the plates. However, when the separation is wide, the formula for very small separation does not provide accurate results. In our previously published papers, we use the boundary element me...

Dispersion curves of elastic guided waves in plates can be efficiently computed by the StripElement Method. This method is based on a finite-element discretization in the thickness direction of the plate and leads to an eigenvalue problem relating frequencies to wavenumbers of the wave modes. In this paper we present a rigorous mathematical background of the Strip-Element Method for anisotropic...

The dynamic instability regions of composite laminated skew flat plates subjected to uniform in-plane axial end-loading are investigated. The in-plane loading is assumed as a combination of a time-invariant component and a harmonic time-varying component uniformly distributed along two opposite panel ends’ width. In case of some loading frequency-amplitude pair-conditions, the model is subjecte...