Of crucial importance to the thin film process engineer is an understanding of the parameters which affect the film thickness distributions which may be obtained from magnetron sources. This paper describes how variations in source design, target erosion and source-to-substrate distance affect observed uniformities from a magnetron source. A simple method of simulating magnetron sources using t...

This article presents Navier type closed-form solutions for static bending, elastic buckling and free vibration analysis of symmetric functionally graded (FG) sandwich beams using a hyperbolic shear deformation theory. The beam has FG skins and isotropic core. Material properties of FG skins are varied through the thickness according to the power law distribution. The present theory accounts fo...

We use concepts from statistical physics to transform the original evolution equation for the sea ice thickness distribution g(h) from Thorndike et al. into a Fokker-Planck-like conservation law. The steady solution is g(h)=N(q)h(q)e(-h/H), where q and H are expressible in terms of moments over the transition probabilities between thickness categories. The solution exhibits the functional form ...

An accurate solution procedure based on the three-dimensional elasticity theory for the free vibration analysis of Functionally Graded Sandwich (FGS) plates is presented. Since no assumptions on stresses and displacements have been employed, it can be applied to the free vibration analysis of plates with arbitrary thickness. The two-constituent FGS plate consists of ceramic and metal graded thr...

the emarat pb-zn mine is located at about 80 km south of the city of arak , iran. i the present mine-scale litho geochemical survey 56 hanging wall samples and 37 footwall samples were taken form exploratory tunnels, drillholes and open pit all samples were taken in the range of 0-40 m from pb-zn veins. the relationship between three variables including concentration of zn in wallwork, distance...

In this study, the buckling response of homogeneous circular plates with variable thickness subjected to radial compression based on the first-order shear deformation plate theory in conjunction with von-Karman nonlinear strain-displacement relations is investigated. Furthermore, optimal thickness distribution over the plate with respect to buckling is presented. In order to determine the distr...