Stresses around two parallel cracks of equal length in an infinite elastic medium are evaluated based on the linearized couple-stress theory under uniform tension normal to the cracks. Fourier transformations are used to reduce the boundary conditions with respect to the upper crack to dual integral equations. In order to solve these equations, the differences in the displacements and in the ro...

The static pull-in instability of beam-type micro-electromechanical systems is theoretically investigated. Two engineering cases including cantilever and double cantilever micro-beam are considered. Considering the mid-plane stretching as the source of the nonlinearity in the beam behavior, a nonlinear size-dependent Euler-Bernoulli beam model is used based on a modified couple stress theory, c...

Composite micro plates with periodic microstructure at very small length scale have been a focus of intensive research. When the descends below millimetre level, size effects may emerge. To account for effect on elastic wave band gap microscopic composite plates, we propose numerical framework based modified couple stress theory elasto-dynamics associated non-classical 3-node triangular (T3) Mi...

This paper proposes the Modified Switched Inductor Quasi Z Source Inverter (MSL-QZSI) for extracting maximum solar power generation. The Z source inverter uses LC impedance network to couple the main converter circuit to the power source, which provides the boosting of input voltage. It is not possible in traditional voltage-source inverter (VSI) and current-source inverter (CSI). The proposed ...

The flow of a couple stress fluid generated by performing longitudinal and torsional oscillations of a porous circular cylinder subjected to constant suction at the surface of the cylinder is studied. A finite difference method is proposed to analyze the velocity components, in an infinite expanse of an incompressible couple stress fluid under vanishing couple stresses of type A condition or su...