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It is well known that classical continuum theory has certain deficiencies in capturing the size effects and predicting the nanoscopic behavior of materials in the vicinity of nano-inhomogeneities and nano-defects with reasonable accuracy. Couple stress theory which is associated with an internal length scale for the medium is one of the higher order continuum theories capable of overcoming such difficulties. In this work, the problem of a nano-size fiber embedded in an unbounded isotropic elastic body for three different types of interface conditions: perfect, imperfect (partially damaged), and pure sliding (completely damaged) subjected to remote anti-plane loading is examined in this... 

In this paper the vibration of a spinning cylindrical shell made of functional graded material (FGM) made is investigated. After a brief introduction of FG materials, by employing higher order theory for shell deformation, constitutive relationships are derived. In the next step by utilizing energy method and Hamilton's principle governing deferential equation of spinning cylindrical shell is obtained. By making use of the principle of minimum potential energy, the characteristic equation of natural frequencies is derived. After verification of the results, the effect of changing different parameters such as material grade, L/R, h/R, and spinning velocity on the natural frequency are... 

The contour integral (CI) method is developed to analyze H-plane waveguide circuits filled with inhomogeneous dielectric such as circuits including full height dielectric posts. In order to reduce the computational costs, the multimode CI method, which considers the effect of higher order TEnO modes, is introduced and we present a hybrid method based on multimode CI and mode matching (MM) techniques. The accuracy of method is validated by comparison of results with those reported in literatures  

In the presented research, vibrational, and amplitude behaviors of a sandwich spinning disk made of two laminated layers and graphene nanoplatelets reinforced composite (GPLRC) core has been reported. The Coriolis and centrifugal impacts have been taken into account due to its rotational feature. The stresses and strains have been obtained through the high-order shear deformable theory (HSDT). The structure’s boundary conditions (BCs) are determined using laminated rotating disk’s governing equations employing energy methods and ultimately have been solved via a computational approach called generalized differential quadrature method (GDQM). The rotational disk’s vibrations with different... 

In the present study, based on 12-unknown higher order shear deformation theory (HSDT), buckling and vibration analysis of FG-CNTRC rectangular plate are investigated for various types of temperature distribution and boundary conditions. Implementing Hamilton’s principle, the equations of motion are derived and solved by adopting the Navier solution for the simply supported boundary conditions and DQM method for other boundary conditions. Validation is carried out by comparing the numerical results with those obtained in the open literature. Also, a detailed parametric analysis is carried out to illuminate the influence of different system parameters such as CNT distributions, CNT volume... 

In this paper, the drivetrain identification problem of a horizontal axis gear-driven wind turbine has been considered. The identification problem leads to a precise model of the drivetrain of the wind turbines which plays a key role in the production and transmission of electrical energy. This process consists of two stages: First, offline identification which needs the input–output data from the drivetrain system. These data are obtained from the FAST code. FAST (Fatigue, Aerodynamics, Structures, and Turbulence) is a valid aeroelastic code in the simulation aeroelastic field of offshore and onshore wind turbines. In region 2 (wind velocity is between the cut-in and rated velocities), the... 

Consider a set of (N+1)-phase concentric spherical ensemble consisting of a core region encased by a sequence of nested spherical layers. Each phase is spherically isotropic and is functionally graded (FG) in the radial direction. Determination of the elastic fields when the outermost spherical surface is subjected to a nonuniform loading and the constituent phases are subjected to some prescribed nonuniform body force and eigenstrain fields is of interest. When the outermost layer is an unbounded medium with zero eigenstrain and body force fields, then an N-phase multi-inhomogeneous inclusion problem is realized. Based on higher-order spherical harmonics, presenting a three-dimensional... 

Rocks and rock-like materials frequently fail under compression due to the initiation, propagation and coalescence of the pre-existing microcracks. The mechanism of microcrack coalescence process in rock-like materials is experimentally and numerically investigated. The experimental study involves some uniaxial compression tests on rock-like specimens specially prepared from portland pozzolana cement, mica sheets and water. The microcrack coalescence is studied by scanning electron microscopy on some of the prepared thin specimens. It is assumed that the mica sheets play the role of microcracks within the specimens. Some analytical and numerical studies are also carried out to simulate the... 

The resonant frequency of flexural vibration for a dagger shaped atomic force microscope (AFM) cantilever has been investigated using the Timoshenko beam theory. Generally, three distinct regions are considered for dagger shaped cantilevers, one region with constant cross section and height and two double tapered regions. In this paper, the effects of the contact position, contact stiffness, the height of the tip, thickness of the beam, the height and breadth taper ratios of cantilever and the angle between the cantilever and the sample surface based on Timoshenko beam theory on the non-dimensional frequency and sensitivity to the contact stiffness have been studied. The differential... 

The joint analysis of multiple datasets to extract their interdependency information has wide applications in biomedical and health informatics. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to extract joint and individual sources of multi-subject datasets by using a deflation based procedure, which is referred to as joint/individual thin independent component analysis (JI-ThICA). The proposed algorithm is based on two cost functions utilizing higher order cumulants to extract joint and individual sources. Joint sources are discriminated by fusing signals of all subjects, whereas individual sources are extracted separately for each subject. Furthermore, JI-ThICA algorithm estimates the number of... 

The joint analysis of multiple data sets to extract their interdependency information has wide applications in biomedical and health informatics. In this paper, we propose an algorithm to extract joint and individual sources of multisubject data sets by using a deflation-based procedure, which is referred to as joint/individual thin independent component analysis (JI-ThICA). The proposed algorithm is based on two cost functions utilizing higher order cumulants to extract joint and individual sources. Joint sources are discriminated by fusing signals of all subjects, whereas individual sources are extracted separately for each subject. Furthermore, JI-ThICA algorithm estimates the number of... 

Hi-C is a genome-wide chromosome conformation capture technology that detects interactions between pairs of genomic regions and exploits higher order chromatin structures. Conceptually Hi-C data counts interaction frequencies between every position in the genome and every other position. Biologically functional interactions are expected to occur more frequently than transient background and artefactual interactions. To identify biologically relevant interactions, several background models that take biases such as distance, GC content and mappability into account have been proposed. Here we introduce MaxHiC, a background correction tool that deals with these complex biases and robustly...