In this paper, wave propagation approach is used to analysis the free vibration and buckling analysis of the thick rectangular plates based on higher order shear deformation plate theory. From wave viewpoint, vibrations can be considered as traveling waves along structures. Waves propagate in a waveguide and reflect at the boundaries. It is assumed that the plate has two opposite edge simply su...

It is quite usual to encounter a beam with different types of cross section or even structuraldiscontinuities such as a crack along its length. Furthermore, in many occasions such a beam mayhappen to be exposed to the oscillatory fluctuations. Therefore, any information about its naturalfrequencies may be worthwhile. Amongst the problems of discontinues beam analysis, in this paper aspecial kin...

The project management discipline is expanding within many engineering activities. This discipline can facilitate strivings toward successful accomplishment of an engineering project. Therefore, many academic institutes teach the “project management” program. This study presents a novel approach that educates engineering students to become successful project managers based on contextual learnin...

Ambivalence, the presence of positive and negative reactions toward an object, typically involves the subjective experience of conflict. We investigate the role that the perceived validity of each side of an ambivalent attitude plays in producing subjective ambivalence (SA). Consistent with the metacognitive model of attitudes, we demonstrated that SA is reduced when people doubt either the pos...

The functional perspective on attitudes suggests that individuals will be more persuaded by advertisements that match their individual needs or attitude functions. Although previous research provided correlational support for this functional approach, the current study aimed to provide a stronger, experimental test. A pilot study validated situational manipulations of the value-expressive and k...

Efficient numerical methods are required for the design of optimised devices. In magnonics, primary computational tool is micromagnetic simulations, which solve Landau-Lifshitz equation discretised in time and space. However, their cost high, complexity output hinders insight into physics simulated system, especially case multimode propagating wave-based We propose a finite-element modal method...