A semi-analytical model on the critical buckling load of perforated plates with opposite free edges

Perforated plates are widely used in thin-walled engineering structures, for example, for lightweight designs of structures and access for installation. For the purpose of analysis, such perforated plates with two opposite free edges might be considered as a series of successive Timoshenko beams. A new semi-analytical model was developed in this study using the Timoshenko shear beam theory for the critical buckling load of perforated plates, with the characteristic equations derived. Results of the proposed modelling were compared with those obtained by FEM and show good agreement. The influence of the dividing number of the successive beams on the accuracy of the critical buckling load was studied with respect to various boundary conditions. And the effect of geometrical parameters, such as the aspect ratio, the thickness-to-width ratio and the cutout-to-width ratio were also investigated. The study shows that the proposed semi-analytical model can be used for buckling analysis of a perforated plate with opposite free edges with the capacity to consider the shear effect in thick plates.

The 3-Good Neighbor Edge-Fault-Tolerant Strong Menger Edge Connectivity on the Class of BC Networks

A graph [Formula: see text] is called strongly Menger edge connected (SM-[Formula: see text] for short) if the number of disjoint paths between any two of its vertices equals the minimum degree of these two vertices. In this paper, we focus on the maximally edge-fault-tolerant of the class of BC-networks (contain hypercubes, twisted cubes, Möbius cubes, crossed cubes, etc.) concerning the SM-[Formula: see text] property. Under the restricted condition that each vertex is incident with at least three fault-free edges, we show that even if there are [Formula: see text] faulty edges, all BC-networks still have SM-[Formula: see text] property and the bound [Formula: see text] is sharp.

Hamiltonian Cycle Embeddings in Faulty Hypercubes Under the Forbidden Faulty Set Model

In this paper, we study the fault-tolerant capability of hypercubes with respect to the hamiltonian property based on the concept of forbidden faulty sets. We show, with the assumption that each vertex is incident with at least three fault-free edges, that an [Formula: see text]-dimensional hypercube contains a fault-free hamiltonian cycle, even if there are up to [Formula: see text] edge faults. Moreover, we give an example to show that the result is optimal with respect to the number of edge faults tolerated.