Optimal Design of an Elastic Plate with Unilateral Elastic Foundation and Rigid Supports, Using the Reissner-Mindlin Plate Model. II: Approximate Problems

Author(s):  
I. Hlaváček ◽  
J. Lovíšek
1967 ◽  
Vol 42 (5) ◽  
pp. 1202-1202
Author(s):  
David H. Y. Yen ◽  
S. C. Tang

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 101-108 ◽  
Author(s):  
Colin Fox ◽  
Vernon A. Squire

The possibility of long-period ocean waves coupling to an ice shelf is investigated. A thick elastic plate model is used for the ice shelf with comparisons made to the simpler thin-plate model. The strain set up on the ice shelf by a normally incident single frequency ocean wave is calculated by completely solving the equations governing the velocity potential for such a system. In the absence of measurements on an ice shelf, existing measurements of long-period strain on an ice tongue are used to estimate the required incident amplitude in the open water to induce the observed oscillations. It is found that the height of seas required indicates that ocean wave driving is a plausible forcing mechanism for observed oscillations.


2019 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 1225-1238 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ana Costa Conrado

This article deals with the mathematical–analytical model of a radially polarised stator, part of a piezoelectric travelling wave ultrasonic motor based on the shear effect. The stator is treated with a Reissner–Mindlin plate model containing piezoelectric terms. The so-obtained mathematical description of the disc stator takes into account its geometry, kinematics and characteristics that influence efficiency and torque. Rayleigh–Ritz discretisation is used to obtain eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes of the stator plate. In addition, there are often teeth over the contact surface of ring-shaped stators to minimise the friction losses during operation of the motor, and possible vibration modes are compared with respect to the deflexion of the contact points. In the laboratory, measured eigenfrequencies of the free vibrations of the plate corroborate the numerical method. Particularly, the generation of travelling waves requests the excitation of two degenerated vibration modes in a certain electrode configuration. A voltage inverter was designed for this purpose.


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