For the quick and accurate determination of the cable force under the hybrid boundary between the ear plate and the anchor plate, this paper proposes a method for identifying the boundary conditions and bending stiffness of the cables based on the fr...
A novel methodology is presented for performing sensitivity analyses of assembled plate structures using the Boundary Element Method (BEM). The main novelty of this work is that the exact implicit derivatives of the BEM formulations for assembled pla...
In this present paper, the dynamic stiffness method (DSM) was formulated to investigate the out-of-plane natural vibration of a thin orthotropic plate using the classical plate theory (CPT). Hamilton’s principle was implemented to derive the go...
In this paper Homotopy-Perturbation method (HPM) is introduced to obtain the approximate solution of the governing differential equation of deflection of thin circular plate under uniform loads with two different types of boundary conditions. The edg...
The aim of this work is to propose a numerical study of the interaction of a wave-horizontal plate fixed and completely immersed in a flat-bottomed tank with a uniform current flowing in the same direction as the incident wave. We investigate in part...
In this paper, an easy-to-implement domain-type meshless method—the generalized finite difference method (GFDM)—is applied to simulate the bending behavior of functionally graded (FG) plates. Based on the first-order shear deformation the...
The growing threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, highlights the urgent need for alternative treatments such as bacteriophage (phage) therapy. Phage therapy offers a targeted approach to combat bacterial infe...
Due to the medium and small damping characteristics of the hard coating compared with viscoelastic materials, the classical modal strain energy (CMSE) method cannot be applied to the prediction of damping characteristics of hard-coating composite str...
This paper discusses the Crank–Nicolson compact difference method for the time-fractional damped plate vibration problems. For the time-fractional damped plate vibration equations, we introduce the second-order space derivative and the first-or...
A Lamb wave in a plate with a finite width has both thickness and width modes, whereas only thickness modes exist in an infinitely wide plate. The thickness and width modes are numerously formed in a finite-width plate, and they all have different cu...
Plate heat exchangers are used in heat substations for domestic hot water preparation and building heating in municipal central heating systems. Water from the municipal water supply is heated by hot water from a district heating network. This paper...
Proper fixation techniques are crucial in orthopedic surgery for the treatment of various medical conditions. Fractures of the distal humerus can occur due to either high-energy trauma with skin rupture or low-energy trauma in osteoporotic bone. The...
This paper investigates a novel
Ships and offshore structures are subjected to impact loads, such as slamming and sloshing. High impact pressures can cause permanent hull deformation by a single impact event. In addition, significant fatigue damage can be accumulated via repeated i...
The three-dimensional vibration of a functionally graded sandwich rectangular plate on an elastic foundation with normal boundary conditions was analyzed using a semi-analytical method based on three-dimensional elasticity theory. The material proper...
The most probable number (MPN) method is a culture-based method commonly used in the field of environmental microbiology to examine microbial populations in liquid substrates. The MPN tests require a wide range of special laboratory equipment, a lot...
The damage location detection of the fiber-reinforced composite thin plate (FCTP) is studied through the curvature modal shape scanning method (CMSSM), utilizing the advantages of the sensitivity of curvature modal shapes to local stiffness changes a...
With the implementation of the energy efficiency design index (EEDI) by the International Maritime Organization (IMO), the goal of which is to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, interest in energy saving devices (ESDs) is increasing. Among such E...
Methods for real-time reconstruction of structural displacements using measured strain data is an area of active research due to its potential application for Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) and morphing structure control. The inverse Finite Eleme...
The error motion of the precision rotary stage, particularly the tilt error motion, significantly influences the accuracy of machining and measuring equipment. Nonetheless, reliable and effective in situ measurement methods for tilt error motion are...
This study examines the impact of key stamping process parameters on metallic bipolar plates for Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) performance using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) combined with thermal and electrochemical simulations and...
The steel-plate–concrete composite reinforcement method is derived from the bonded steel plate and increased-section techniques. It is employed to enhance the strength of concrete structures that require a substantial increase in load-bearing c...
We explore the mechanism and law of reducing the resistance of soil cutting tools by achieving the self-excited vibration mode through the modification of the soil-engaging surface spectrum. Around the fundamental resonance point of the soil, and sup...
Hinge joint damage is a typical form of damage occurring in simply supported slab bridges, which can present adverse effects on the overall force distribution of the structure. However, damage identification methods of hinge joint damage are still li...
Aiming at the problems of cumbersome parameter tuning and low computational efficiency in traditional methods for the bandgap optimization of periodic thin-walled stiffened coupled structures, this paper integrates the null-space method with the Kirc...
The symplectic method for a thin piezoelectric plate problem is developed. The Hamiltonian canonical equation of thin piezoelectric plate is given by using the variational principle. By applying the separation of variables method, we can obtain sympl...
This study aims to evaluate the effectiveness of five analytical and semi-analytical methods for estimating Lamb wave dispersion in viscoelastic plates—the Rayleigh–Lamb solution, the Global Matrix Method (GMM), the Semi-Analytical Finite...
For both linear and nonlinear analysis, finite element method (FEM) software packages, whether commercial or in-house, have contributed significantly to ease the analysis of simple and complex structures with various working conditions. However, the...
The main subject of this study is to determine the optimal position of a fixed number of viscoelastic dampers on the surface of a thin (Kirchhoff-Love) plate. It is assumed that the dampers are described according to the generalized Maxwell model. In...
The finite point method (FPM) is a numerical, mesh-free technique for solving differential equations, particularly in fluid dynamics. While the FPM has been previously applied in solid mechanics to analyze plates under in-plane loading, there remains...
This paper presents a meshless Galerkin method for analyzing the nonlinear behavior of corrugated sandwich plates. A corrugated sandwich plate is a composite structure comprising two flat face sheets and a corrugated core, which can be approximated a...
In order to verify the accuracy and applicability of the discrete element method (DEM) in dealing with geometrically large deformations of continuous plate structures, both a single-parameter analysis and an orthogonal design method were adopted to a...
Perforated materials are widely used in various fields, including in medicine, for example, in trays for placing and storing cutting tools and for sterilizing disposable materials. Currently, the effective elastic modulus of orthopedic plates is high...
Laminated composite structures suffer from failure because of concentrations of gradient fields on interfaces due to discontinuity of material properties. The rapid development of material science enables designers to replace classical laminated plat...
In this study, elastic metamaterial sandwich plates with axially deformed Timoshenko beam cores, considering both the out-of-plane and in-plane deformations of the face plates, are designed and the vibration band-gap properties are explored. The beam...
In the design of cantilevered balconies of buildings, many stability problems exist concerning vertical plates, in which reaching a critical load plays an important role during the stability analysis of the plate. At the same time, the concrete formi...
Fiber-reinforced and laminated composite materials, widely used in engineering applications, may develop periodic curvature during manufacturing due to technological requirements. Given such curvatures in widely used composites, static and dynamic an...
This paper presents an original approach through Transfer-Matrix Method applied for the calculus of the continuous circular plate embedded at the exterior circumference, charged with asymmetrical uniform load on the entire upper surface of the plate....
The aim of this work is to present an original, relatively simple, and elegant approach to the analysis of long rectangular plates subjected to uniformly distributed vertical loads acting on various surfaces. Plate analysis is important in many field...
The hygrothermal deformation of nanocomposite piezoelectric plates containing internal pores lying on elastic foundations is illustrated in this paper by utilizing a novel quasi-3D plate theory (Q3DT). This nanocomposite plate has been strengthened b...
The nonlinear deformation and vibrations of elastic plates represent a fundamental problem in structural vibration analysis, frequently encountered in engineering applications and classical mathematical studies. In the field of studying the nonlinear...
This paper develops a two-scale asymptotic homogenization method for periodic composite Kirchhoff plates. In this method, a three-dimensional (3D) periodic plate problem is simplified as a Kirchhoff plate problem, which is governed by a fourth-order...
The main objective of this work is to investigate the natural vibrations of a system of two thin (Kirchhoff–Love) plates surrounded by liquid in terms of the coupled Stochastic Boundary Element Method (SBEM), Stochastic Finite Element Method (S...
An efficient isogeometric analysis method (IGA) based on a simple first-order shear deformation theory is presented to study free vibration, static bending response, dynamic response, and active control of functionally graded plates (FGPs) integrated...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) and safety assessment are very important areas for evaluating the behavior of structures. Various wired and wireless sensors can measure the physical responses of structures, such as displacement or strain. One rece...
The present work’s main objective is to investigate the natural vibrations of the thin (Kirchhoff–Love) plate resting on time-fractional viscoelastic supports in terms of the Stochastic Finite Element Method (SFEM). The behavior of the su...
The purpose of this paper is to study the axisymmetric vibrations of circular three-layered sandwich plates with a frequency-dependent fractional viscoelastic core and elastic face sheets. First, the equations of motion and related boundary condition...
This paper presents the development and validation of a 3D CFD model of a heave plate under forced oscillations using the Lattice-Boltzmann, LES software SIMULIA XFlow 2023, which has never been used for industrial applications in this context. The m...
The difference in the strengthening effect of different thickness reinforcement plates on an LY12 aluminum alloy central defect plate and the load distribution between the reinforcement plate and central defect plate in the reinforcement plate struct...
In this study, the moving least squares (MLS)-Ritz method, which involves combining the Ritz method with admissible functions established using the MLS approach, was used to predict the vibration frequencies of cracked functionally graded material (F...
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