In this paper, the thermal buckling analysis of a circular plate made of FGM materials with actuator/actuator piezoelectric layers based on neutral plane, classical plate theory and first order shear deformation plate theory is investigated. Reddy's model is assumed for material properties of FGM plate. Plate under the thermal loading, nonlinear temperature rise through the thickness and clampe...

The clinical applications of thermal sensory and pain thresholds have been very limited due to large intra-individual variations. In the present paper CO2 and argon lasers were used as thermal stimulators, and the different factors (stimulus parameters and skin conditions) affecting the thresholds are described. The intra-individual variations obtained in sensory (9.3%) and pain (4.3%) threshol...

An attempt is made to analyse the effect of variation in thermal properties in Fibre Metal Laminate with an implanted delamination. This work focuses to explore the variations in thermal contrast for the increase in values of thermal properties of delamination, Aluminium layers and glass reinforced epoxy layers. The paper projects the numerical investigations towards the thermal analysis of fib...

We consider a quantum system with N degrees of freedom which is classically chaotic. When N is large, and both h̄ and the quantum energy uncertainty ∆E are small, quantum chaos theory can be used to demonstrate the following results: (1) given a generic observable A, the infinite time average A of the quantum expectation value 〈A(t)〉 is independent of all aspects of the initial state other than ...

This paper uses variational methods to establish the existence of so-called multi-bump homoclinic solutions for a family of singular Hamiltonian systems in R 2 which are subjected to almost periodic forcing in time.

The thermal damping of a dynamic vibrating micromirror is an important factor affecting the design of MEMS based actuator systems. In the development process of new micromirror systems, assessing the extent of energy loss due to thermal damping accurately and predicting the performance of the system is very essential. In this paper, the depth of the thermal penetration layer at different eigenf...

An algorithm for identiication of unknown parameters of nonlin-ear heat conductivity equations is proposed. Solutions of equations observed with an error are input data of the algorithm. Finite dimensional approximations of input signals and their derivatives are used. The algorithm utilizes the idea of the direct minimization of the residual of equations written in an appropriate variational f...

In the last decade or so, variational gluing methods have been widely used to construct homoclinic and heteroclinic type solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations and Hamiltonian systems. This note is concerned with the procedure of gluing mountain-pass type solutions. The rst procedure to glue mountain-pass type solutions was developed through the work of S er e, and Coti Zelati-Rabinowitz. Th...