free vibration analysis of higher-order shear deformation beam resting on one- and two-parameter elasticfoundation is studied using differential transform method (dtm) as a part of a calculation procedure. first,the governing differential equations of beam are derived in a general form considering the shear-freeboundary conditions (zero shear stress conditions at the top and bottom of a beam). ...

We consider explicit expansions of some elementary and q-functions in basic Fourier series introduced recently by Bustoz and Suslov. Natural q-extensions of the Bernoulli and Euler polynomials, numbers, and the Riemann zeta function are discussed as a by-product. © 2002 Elsevier Science (USA)

The present study investigates buckling characteristics of both nonlinear symmetric power and sigmoid functionally graded (FG) beams. The volume fractions of metal and ceramic are assumed to be distributed through a beam thickness by the sigmoid-law distribution (S-FGM), and the symmetric power function (SP-FGM). These functions have smooth variation of properties across the boundary rather tha...

In 1696, Johann Bernoulli solved the brachistochrone problem by an ingenious method of combining Fermat’s principle of minimum time, Snell’s law of refraction and “finite element” discretization. This appears to be the first application of a “direct method.” By taking the limits of these “broken-line solutions,” Bernoulli arrived at an equation for the cycloid. About fifty years later (1744), E...

Using the finite difference calculus and differentiation, we obtain several new identities for Bernoulli and Euler polynomials; some extend Miki’s and Matiyasevich’s identities, while others generalize a symmetric relation observed by Woodcock and some results due to Sun.

Let p be a fixed odd prime. Throughout this paper, Zp,Qp,Cp will, respectively, denote the ring of p-adic integers, the field of p-adic rational numbers, and the completion of algebraic closure of Qp. The p-adic absolute value | |p on Cp is normalized so that |p|p 1/p. Let Z>0 be the set of natural numbers and Z≥0 Z>0 ∪ {0}. As is well known, the Bernoulli polynomials Bn x are defined by the ge...