the idea of combining low weight and good mechanical properties has led to efforts to develop a new light fiber/metal laminate (fml) in the last decade. fmls are hybrid composites consisting of alternating thin layers of metal sheets and fiber-reinforced epoxy prepregs. in this study, the effect of fiber orientation on tensile properties of this material is investigated both analytically and ex...

in this paper, free vibration of functionally graded rectangular simply supported thick plates based on two variable refined plate theory is presented. according to a power-law distribution, the mass density and elasticity modulus of the plate are considered to vary while poisson’s ratio is constant. in order to extract the five constitutive equations of motion, hamilton principle is employed. ...

A theoretical investigation is made of the effect of finite pulse length on the multipactor breakdown condition for microwave signals. The analysis considers the case of multipactor between two parallel metallic plates, using the classical resonance theory. It is found that decreasing pulse length tends to successively eliminate higher order resonance zones and lead to a ”pulse hardening” of lo...