Showing papers in "International Journal of Engineering Science in 2001"

TL;DR: In this article, Green's functions for an infinite two-dimensional anisotropic magnetoelectroelastic medium containing an elliptical cavity were obtained based on the extended Stroh formalism combined with the technique of conformal mapping and the Laurent series expansion.

TL;DR: In this paper, exact solutions for the following five problems of an Oldroyd-B fluid are obtained: (i) Stokes problem (ii) modified Stokes Problem (iii) the time-periodic Poiseuille flow due to an oscillating pressure gradient (iv) the non-periodical flows between two boundaries, and (v) symmetric flow with an arbitrary initial velocity.

TL;DR: In this article, heat and mass transfer along a vertical plate under the combined buoyancy force effects of thermal and species diffusion is investigated in the presence of a transversely applied uniform magnetic field and the Hall currents are taken into account.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Laplace integral transform method is employed as a method of solution for nonstationary vibrations of linear viscoelastic one-degree-of-freedom (1dof), two-degree of freedom (2dof) and multiple degree-offreedom (mdof) mechanical systems.

TL;DR: In this article, a perturbation analysis is used to derive closed-form solutions for self-similar boundary layer flow of a micropolar fluid driven by a stretching sheet with uniform suction or blowing through the surface.

TL;DR: In this article, the steady laminar flow of a second grade fluid over a radially stretching sheet is considered, and the viscoelasticity of the fluid gives rise to a boundary value problem (BVP) in which the order of the differential equation exceeds the number of boundary conditions.

TL;DR: In this article, a numerical study of the steady natural convection heat transfer within an inclined trapezoidal enclosure filled with a fluid-saturated porous medium is presented, where the top cylindrical surface of the enclosure is cooled and the bottom cylinder is heated.

TL;DR: In this article, a family of generalized variational principles of piezoelectricity can be obtained straightforwardly from the field equations and boundary conditions via the semi-inverse method of establishing variational principle proposed by He without using Lagrange multipliers.

TL;DR: In this article, the effects of imperfect bonding on stress intensity factors (SIFs) calculated at a radial matrix crack in a fiber (inclusion) composite subjected to various cases of mechanical loading are studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors considered the unsteady flow of incompressible micropolar fluid between two parallel porous plates when there is a periodic suction at the lower plate and injection at the upper plate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the penetration depth of the Bleustein-Gulyaev (B-G) wave in a layered half-space with identical piezoelectric layer and substrate but in opposite polarization was investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the model of generalized magneto-thermoelasticity with two relaxation times in a perfectly conducting medium is established and the method of the matrix exponential, which constitutes the basis of the state space approach of modern theory, is applied to the non-dimensional equations.

TL;DR: In this paper, an analytical study of the flow of a power-law fluid through a cylindrical tube in the presence of a peripheral layer of another powerlaw fluid with different viscosity was performed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of free convection currents with one relaxation time on the flow of a viscous perfectly conducting fluid were investigated. But the model was applied to study the effects on the free convective currents with a single relaxation time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the assumption of constant permeability in the theory of consolidation by Terzaghi is relaxed and a linear relation is proposed between permeability and air voids, and Voids filled with asphalt (VFA) is proposed as a parameter to model bleeding of asphalt concrete, and its variation for different loading and mixture condition is studied.

TL;DR: In this paper, an elementary procedure for obtaining the solution to Boussinesq's problem for the loading of an isotropic elastic halfspace by a concentrated normal load is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that the entropy flux of non-blackbody radiation (NBR) emission is even farther away from q/T than that of thermal radiation (TR).

TL;DR: In this article, a new exact analytic solution for spherical cavitated bifurcation is presented for a class of compressible hyperelastic materials, where the strain energy density of the materials is assumed to be a linear function of three strain invariants.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a framework to describe the mechanical behavior of thermally damaged biological soft tissues based on a melding of ideas from classical continuum thermodynamics and irreversible thermodynamics.

TL;DR: In this article, an elastic body submitted to a local Coulomb friction law on a part of its boundary is considered and a smoothing technique is used to approximate the friction law in an auxiliary problem.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the continuity of the mappings which, for a given set of cross-sectional areas of a truss, gives the bar forces and nodal displacements present in equilibrium.

TL;DR: In this article, the reflection and refraction coefficients for various reflected and refracted waves for Lord-Shulman theory have been obtained graphically for the case of water-aluminium epoxy composite subject to thermal disturbances.

TL;DR: In this paper, a continuum elastic-plastic damage model employing irreversible thermodynamics and internal state variables is presented, which is based on a kinematic description using multiplicative decomposition of the metric transformation tensor into elastic and damage-polysilicon parts.

TL;DR: In this paper, closed-form analytical formulas for a paraboloidal shape in pure translation are presented based on both the approximation of normal and tangential strains in terms of the translational displacement of the tooth and the tooth equilibrium of the thin surrounding periodontal membrane (or on the strain energy conservation equivalently).

TL;DR: In this paper, the boundary value problems in the equilibrium theory of plane strain of microstretch elastic solids were studied and the potentials of single layer and double layer are used to reduce the boundary-value problems to singular integral equations for which Fredholm's theorems hold.

TL;DR: In this paper, the onset of stability in a horizontal layer of viscoelastic dielectric liquid (Walters' liquid B ) under the simultaneous action of a vertical ac electric field and a vertical temperature gradient is analyzed.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the non-linear partial differential equation called the Zakharov-Kuznetsov equation via symmetry method as developed by S. Steinberg and showed that the symmetries form a finite dimensional vector Lie algebra.

TL;DR: In this paper, the stability and onset of stationary convection in a rotating fluid saturated porous layer placed at an arbitrary positive distance from the rotation axis and subject to gravity and centrifugal body forces is investigated analytically.

TL;DR: In this article, the wave propagation in a heat conducting plate of an arbitrary anisotropic media was analyzed in the context of generalized thermoelasticity, and the particle motions for SH modes decouple from rest of the motion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the problems of the mathematical modeling and dynamical response of thin-walled beam cantilevers encompassing a number of non-classical features and incorporating adaptive capabilities are investigated.