the pile-raft foundation is a combination of a raft foundation with piles. pile-raft foundation has been widely designed, assuming all structure loads to be transferred to piles without considering contribution of the load taken by contact surface between raft and soil. methods of analysis currently used in practice are based upon relatively conservative assumptions of soil behavior or on the l...

Let Lθ be the circular cone in IR which includes second-order cone as a special case. For any function f from IR to IR, one can define a corresponding vector-valued function fLθ on IR by applying f to the spectral values of the spectral decomposition of x ∈ IR with respect to Lθ. The main results of this paper are regarding the Hdifferentiability and calmness of circular cone function fLθ . Spe...

In this paper, a continuum model based on the nonlocal elasticity theory is developed for vibration analysis of embedded orthotropic circular and elliptical micro/nano-plates. The nano-plate is bounded by a Pasternak foundation. Governing vibration equation of the nonlocal nano-plate is derived using Nonlocal Classical Plate Theory (NCPT). The weighted residual statement and the Galerkin method...

The paper investigates the strength of the Anti-Foundation Axiom, AFA, on the basis of Kripke-Platek set theory without Foundation. It is shown that the addition of AFA considerably increases the proof theoretic strength. 1. Introduction Intrinsically circular phenomena have come to the attention of researchers in diiering elds such as mathematical logic, computer science, artiicial intelligenc...

Based on the differential transformation method, a semi-analytical solution is developed for free vibration and modal stress analyses of variable thickness two-directional functionally graded circular plates with restrained edges, resting on elastic foundations. Variations of the material and geometry parameters are monitored by five distinct exponential functions. The presented non-dimensional...