1 Necessary conditions have been established recently for the prescribed data along the cylindrical edge(s) of an elastic flat plate to induce only an exponentially decaying elastostatic state. The present paper describes how these conditions may be used to determine the interior solution (or its various thin and thick plate theory approximations) of plate problems. The results in turn show tha...

The analysis of a new viscometer that takes the form of an oscillating plate, fabricated from silicon using the methods of micro-electro-mechanical-systems (MEMS) is considered. The instrument is designed principally for experimental use in the oil industry. The plate is 1.6mm wide, 2.4mm long, and 20μm thick. It is suspended from a 0.4mm thick support by 48 square cross-section legs, each of l...

An experimental investigation has been carried out to determine the applicability of an induction heating process with a travelling induction coil for the rectification of angular welding distortion. The results obtained from experimentation have been used to create artificial neural network models with the ability to predict the welding induced distortion and the distortion rectification achie...