Spatial variations in the rigidity of continental plates (expressed in terms of an effective elastic thickness, Te) can have a profound influence on the style of deformation of ocean–continent convergent margins. Depending on the spatial distribution of Te, strains related to plate boundary forces can become concentrated where Te is small. We calculate Te and Te anisotropy in western Canada by ...

In the present study, small scale effect on critical buckling loads of triangular nano- composite plates under uniform in-plane compression is studied. Since at nano-scale the structure of the plate is discrete, the size dependent nonlocal elasticity theory is employed to develop an equivalent continuum plate model for this nanostructure incorporating the changes in its mechanical behavior. The...

electro-thermo-elastic stress analysis of piezoelectric polymeric thick-walled cylinder reinforced by boronnitride nanotubes (bnnts) subjected to electro-thermo-mechanical fields is presented in this article. the electro-thermo-elastic properties of piezoelectric fiber reinforced composite (pefrc) was studied by a modified xy micromechanical model capable of exhibiting full coupling relation be...

We study the deformation and stability of gold–polysilicon MEMS plate microstructures fabricated by the MUMPS surface micromachining process and subjected to uniform temperature changes. We measured, using an interferometric microscope, full-field deformed shapes of a series of square and circular gold (0.5 m thick)/polysilicon (1.5 m thick) plate microstructures with characteristic lengths (sq...

In this research, the buckling and bending behaviour of smart nanocomposite plate reinforced by single- walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) under electro-magneto-mechanical loadings is studied. The extended mixture rule approach is used to determine the elastic properties of nanocomposite plate. Equilibrium equations of smart nanocomposite plate are derived using the Hamilton’s principle based on ...

Numerous geological observations evidence that inelastic deformation occurs during sills and laccoliths emplacement. However, most models of sill and laccolith emplacement neglect inelastic processes by assuming purely elastic deformation of the host rock. This assumption has never been tested so that the role of inelastic deformation on the growth dynamics of magma intrusions remains poorly un...

Herein paper compares the analytical model with the FEM based numerical model of the axisymmetric bending of circular sandwich plates. Also, the paper describes equations of the circular symmetrical sandwich plates bending with isotropic face sheets and the nonlinear elastic core material. The method of constructing an analytical solution of nonlinear differential equations has been described. ...

The fundamentals of particle-particle adhesion for ultrafine particles (d < 10 μm) are presented using continuum mechanics approaches. The models for elastic (Hertz, Huber), elastic-adhesive (Derjaguin, Johnson, Maugis, Greenwood), viscoelastic (Yang), plastic-adhesive (Krupp, Molerus, Johnson, Maugis & Pollock) contact displacement response of a single, normal loaded, isotropic, smooth contact...