The complex stress intensity factor and energy release rate are obtained for two semi-infinite interfacial cracks between two bonded dissimilar elastic strips with equal thickness under inplane deformations. During the procedure, by means of conformal mapping technique, the mixed boundary-value problem is reduced to a standard Riemann–Hilbert problem, which is further solved in closed-form. In ...

This paper is concerned with a semi-infinite interfacial crack between two bonded dissimilar elastic strips with equal thickness. Solutions for the complex stress intensity factor (SIF) and energy release rate (ERR) are obtained in closed form under in-plane deformations. During the procedure, the mixed boundary-value problem is reduced by means of the conformal mapping technique to the standar...

Multifrequency composites seems to be a good approach to increase the acoustic bandwidth of standard piezoelectric composites. The mechanical coupling between the different piezoceramic elements introduces new degrees of freedom into their design. Monodimensional models have been developed to study their performances in a first approximation. In order to obtain a powerful design model, a two-di...

Several lamellar gratings of 18-in. aperture, with 300 diffraction elements per inch, have been made for determining stellar spectra with wide angle telescopes. Central orders are missing at lambda4800, and weak at adjacent wavelengths. The two, equal first orders are about l(m) weaker than spectra by a prism or echelette grating. Dispersion is linear. The procedure of manufacture is adaptable ...

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