an important concern in rock mechanics is non-homogeneity as joints or fault. this noticeable feature of failures in rock is appearance of slip surfaces or shear bands, the characteristics of that are associated with deformation being concentrated in a narrow zones and the surrounding material remaining intact. adopting the joints as fractures, fractures are well known for their effects on the ...

In this paper, the Elzaki transform method is used for solving two-dimensional (2D) elasticity problems in plane polar coordinates. Airy stress function was used to express the stress compatibility equation as a biharmonic equation. Elzaki transform was applied with respect to the radial coordinate to a modified form of the stress compatibility equation, and the biharmonic equation simplified t...

We present a method for construction of the topological derivatives in plane elasticity. It is assumed that a hole is created in the subdomain of the elastic body which is filled out with isotropic material. The asymptotic analysis of elliptic boundary value problems in singularly perturbed geometrical domains is used in order to derive the asymptotics of the shape functionals depending on the ...

In this paper, we apply Shannon wavelet and Galerkin method to deal with the numerical solution of the natural boundary integral equation of plane elasticity probem in the upper half-plane. The fast algorithm is given and only 3K entries need to be computed for one 4K × 4K stiffness matrix. Keyword: plane elasticity problem, natural integral equation, Shannon wavelet, Galerkin-wavelet method.

In various physiological activities, cells experience stresses along their in-plane direction when facing substrate deformation. Capability of continuous monitoring elasticity of live cell layers during a period is highly desired to investigate cell property variation during various transformations under normal or disease states. This paper reports time-lapsed measurement of live cell layer in-...