In this paper, a rectangular sandwich plate with a constrained layer and an electrorheological (ER) fluid core is investigated. The rectangular plate is covered an ER fluid core and a constraining layer to improve the stability of the system. The two outer layers of the sandwich structure are elastic. The viscoelastic materials express the middle layer behavior under electric field and small st...

A graph Gs = (V,Es) is a sandwich for a pair of graph Gt = (V,Et) and G = (V,E) if Et ⊆ Es ⊆ E. Any poset, or partially ordered set, admits a unique graph representation which is directed and transitive. In this paper we introduce the notion of sandwich poset problems inspired by former sandwich problems on comparability graphs. In particular, we are interested in seriesparallel and interval po...

In this paper, a variation of Murakami’s Zig-Zag theory is proposed for the analysis of functionally graded plates. The new theory includes a hyperbolic sine term for the in-plane displacements expansion and accounts for through-the-thickness deformation, by considering a quadratic evolution of the transverse displacement with the thickness coordinate. The governing equations and the boundary c...

This paper develops the theory of ballistic SNS sandwich, in which Josephson effect exists without proximity effect. The considers restrictions imposed by charge conservation law and incommensurability superconducting gap with Andreev level energy spacing. resulted revisions some conclusions previous works. In one-dimensional (1D) case, phase ground state sandwich is not necessarily zero but ma...

This paper responds to a number of criticisms of Dempster-Shafer theory made by Judea Pearl. He criticises Dempster-Shafer belief for not obeying the laws of Bayesian belief," however, these laws lead to well-known problems in the face of ignorance, and seem unreasonably restrictive. It is argued that it is not reasonable to expect a measure of belief to obey Pearl's sandwich principle. The sta...