... plates. The Young’s modulus of the FG plate is assumed to vary exponentially along the thickness of the plate while the Poisson’s ratio is assumed to be constant over the domain of the plate. The numerical values of the exact solutions are presented for both thick and thin smart FG plates and indicate...

...Y. J. Liu; N. Nishimura; Y. Otani; T. Takahashi; X. L. Chen; H. Munakata A new boundary element method (BEM) is developed for three-dimensional analysis of fiber-reinforced composites based on a rigid-inclusion model. Elasticity equations are solved in an elastic domain containing inclusions which...

...Z. Suo; Y. F. Gao; G. Scoles Certain organic molecules, such as alkanethiols, can adsorb on metals to form monolayers. Sometimes domains appear in the monolayers. For example, an incomplete monolayer may form islands, and a mixed-composition monolayer may separate into distinct phases. During...

...Y. F. Gao; Z. Suo This paper models the domain dynamics in a ferroelastic epilayer within the time-dependent Ginzburg-Landau (TDGL) framework. Constrained on a paraelastic substrate of square symmetry, the epilayer has rectangular symmetry, and forms domains of two variants. The domain wall energy...