Showing papers in "International Journal of Engineering Science in 1994"

TL;DR: In this article, the coupled electroelastic Green's functions for a transversely isotropic piezoelectric medium were derived by utilizing the contour integral representation of the Green's function derived by Deeg.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed analytical solutions of refined beam theories to study the free vibration behavior of cross-ply rectangular beams with arbitrary boundary conditions in conjunction with the state space approach.

TL;DR: In this article, a model for rate independent hysteresis based on the Duhem-Madelung framework is examined in the context of temperature induced phase transitions such as those which occur in shape memory metals.

TL;DR: In this paper, a continuum theory is developed for a mixture consisting of three components: an elastic solid, viscous fluid and gas, and balance laws are given for individual components of the mixture.

TL;DR: In this article, the thermomechanics of a multiphase multicomponent mixture are developed in the spirit of modern continuum physics, and a new axiom of constitution, "equipresence of constituents", is employed to obtain macroscale equations of constitution which are consistent with their microscale counterparts.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of rotation on the thermo-convective instability of a horizontal layer of a ferrofluid heated from below and in the presence of a uniform vertical magnetic field is studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, a theoretical analysis for free convection flow of a conducting fluid along a semi-infinite vertical flat plate when the fluid is permeated by a transverse magnetic field and the Hall effects are taken into account is presented.

TL;DR: In this article, analtyical solutions based on a porothermomechanical formulation for double-porosity media have been presented, where complete coupling is ensured among fluid flow, heat flow, and solid deformation in the conservation of momentum.

TL;DR: In this article, a detailed account of plane incremental vibrations of a rectangular plate of incompressible isotropic elastic material subject to an underlying homogeneous pure strain is given. And the emergence of quasi-static modes of deformation, corresponding to zero frequency, is accorded special attention.

TL;DR: In this paper, a mathematical model for pulsatile blood flow subjected to externally-imposed periodic body acceleration by considering blood as a third grade fluid is presented. And the effects of the body acceleration on the velocity, the flow rate and the wall shear stress are estimated numerically through an implicit finite difference scheme for femoral and coronary arteries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the transient features of the Couette flow of an electrically conducting fluid subject to rotation and magnetic field have been analyzed when one of the plates has been set into uniformly accelerated motion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the interaction effects between a screw dislocation and an elastic elliptical inhomogeneity and obtained a general solution to the problem through the use of conformal mapping and the complex variable method.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Lagrange identity method is developed for the study of the initial boundary value problem of thermoelasticity of bodies with microstructure, and some estimations on the basis that some uniqueness and continuous dependence theorems in bounded and exterior domains will be obtained.

TL;DR: In this article, two energy-release rates due to quasistatic crack propagation in electroelastic materials are obtained by using a Griffith-type energy approach, where the difference represents the free electric field contribution to the propagation of the crack.

TL;DR: In this article, the transient laminar natural convection in the flow of a micropolar fluid along a vertical wavy surface has been investigated by using a simple transposition theorem and cubic spline collocation numerical method.

TL;DR: An elastic/viscoplastic constitutive equation with nonassociated viscoplastic potential of Cristescu type was determined in this paper for describing the mechanical characteristics of the bituminous concrete.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed an algorithm to reconstruct the locations of a collection of linear cracks inside a homogeneous electrical conductor from boundary measurements based on a variation of Newton's method and used weighted averages of the measured boundary data.

TL;DR: In this article, a half-space governed by the equations of thermoelasticity with two relaxation times is considered and the bounding plane is acted upon by a combination of a thermal and a mechanical shock acting for a finite period of time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the steady buoyancy-induced flow of a non-Newtonian fluid in a porous medium bounded by a vertical flat plate with prescribed variable wall heat flux is investigated analytically by Karman-Pohlhausen integral method and numerically by similarity method.

TL;DR: In this article, the exact solution of the distribution of stress and deformation in an elastic-perfectly plastic cylindrical rod with uniform internal heat generation under generalized plane strain condition is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, the problem of an infinitely long solid conducting circular cylinder whose lateral surface is traction free and subjected to known surrounding temperatures in the presence of a uniform magnetic field in the direction of the axis is considered.

TL;DR: In this paper, the dislocation density is identified in terms of Curl G p and some (but not all) of the results established for the kinematics of crystallographic slip have their counterparts in the traditional developments of crystal plasticity.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical investigation of magnetohydrodynamic phenomena in electromagnetic levitation processes is presented, where the flow is treated as a Stokes flow and the turbulence in the system is accounted for by using a constant eddy viscosity model, which may be derived from the Prandtl mixing length theory.

TL;DR: In this paper, the steady buoyancy-induced boundary layer flow of a non-Newtonian fluid over a nonisothermal horizontal flat plate immersed in a porous medium was investigated by employing the general similarity transformation procedure and the power law model to characterize the non-newtonian flow behavior.

TL;DR: In this article, a domain of influence theorem in the linear theory of elastic materials with voids has been established, which shows that for a finite time t > 0, the displacement field u i and the change in volume fraction ϑ generate no disturbance outside a bounded domain Ω t.

TL;DR: In this article, the linear theory of microstretch elastic solids introduced by Eringen was studied and the Saint-Venant's problem for isotropic bodies was reduced to solving of plane problems.

TL;DR: Magnetization and impedance of an electrically conducting sphere, which is inductively coupled with an arbitrary, sinusoidally alternating current density distribution, are calculated analytically in this article.

TL;DR: In this paper, the basic equations that describe nonlinear thermoelastic interactions in a continuous medium were derived under the simplifying monomode hypothesis to provide an effective basis for the investigation of nonlinear thermal bulk wave propagation.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduced the notion of the thermodynamic driving force for coherent phase transformations and derived the new representations of thermodynamical driving force, which reached an extremum at any dynamically admissible phase amplitude.