Abstract: Stress concentrations around a circular cavity in an infinitely extended, thin elastic plate, during passage of plane compressional waves, are discussed. The dynamical stress concentration factors ...

Abstract: In the first part of this paper, a method was developed for the construction of the branches of Pochhammer’s frequency equation for flexural waves in a circular cylinder. The method was applied ...

Abstract: This article traces the development of applied mechanics and its relation to science and engineering by reviewing first the history of mechanics from 1600 to 1900, the physics of the 19th ...

Abstract: The transition matrix formulation of multiple scattering is applied to the problem of wave propagation in a one-dimensional layered medium. The effect of geometrical irregularity in an otherwise ...

Abstract: In the first part of this paper, the Laplace transformed solutions in terms of the generalized ray integrals for point sources in a plate are presented. The inverse transform and the exact ...

Abstract: Transient waves generated by a variety of dynamic nuclei of strains including a concentrated force, a single-couple, a double-force, a double-couple without moment, a center of rotation, and a ...

Abstract: In the first part of this paper expressions for Green’s dyadics in terms of the generalized ray integrals for both unbounded and bounded media were given. In this part Cagniard’s method is ...

Abstract: The response of an infinite elastic plate to dynamic loading is presented by the method of superposition of normal modes, a method particularly appropriate in the intermediate and far field. ...

Abstract: Scattering of plane harmonic compressional and shear waves (P and SV-waves) by a semi-infinite rigid-smooth strip or ribbon which is a plane barrier with its top and bottom surfaces being ...