In this study, fuzzy logic was implemented to formulate the fuzziness of layer boundaries for a two-layered clay soil. A field of two-layered clay with fuzzy boundaries between layers was generated, and then the bearing capacity of strip footing on this field was calculated by the assumption of plane-strain conditions. The Mohr-Coulomb failure criterion was used and bearing capacity calculation...

We study excursions with jumps to nearest neighbors in different lattices (hexagonal, triangular, kagome, Manhattan lattices), paths in a strip, etc. We show that some families are algebraic, D-finite, and give some nice closed form formulas.

A microscopic investigation has been made on the shearing of one leaded and two leadfree solders by using an in situ SEM method. A shear lap joint specimen is designed and fabricated to accommodate a thin layer of solder alloy between copper strips. A non-contact method that measures strains in a very narrow area in the solder was applied. A laser grid was also used on the copper strip for meas...

Bending is one of the most common metal forming technology and it can be applied not only in sheet metal forming but also in forming of wires, rods, strips, pipes and bars. However, in car production, ship building and home appliance manufacturing sheet metal bending is most widely employed. One of the most significant sheet metal bending operations is V – Die bending. This process consists of ...

sandwich sheet rolling process is investigated using an analytical method (slab method) and a numerical method (finite element method). the horizontal stress distribution in the layers, the rolling pressure along the contact interface and the neutral point between the roll and the sheet are investigated. then the affects of the parameters such as the friction between the sheet and the roll, she...

In [6], Murray Marshall proved that every f∈R[X,Y] non-negative on the strip [0,1]×R can be written as f=σ0+σ1X(1−X) with σ0,σ1 sums of squares in R[X,Y]. this work, we present a few results concerning representation particular cases. First, under assumption degY⁡f≤2, by characterizing extreme rays suitable cone, obtain degree bound for each term. Then, consider case f positive and non-vanishin...

This paper presents scope of parallelization in large displacement stability analysis of orthotropic prismatic shells with simply supported boundary conditions along the diaphragm-supported edges. A semi-analytical harmonic coupled finite strip method (HCFSM) is used to solve the large deflection and the post-buckling problems. In the HCFSM formulation the coupling of all series terms highly in...

Abstract In this paper we will give a short rewiew about the conductance of a mesoscopic waveguide strip with a few impurities. Green-function method is used allowing to treat systems with low number of impurities, not only the completly clean case. Investigating a wire containing Diracdelta potentials (modelling the impurities) we found that increasing number of impurities can cause a transiti...