Abstract: The method of singular surfaces was used in a recent paper to develop a numerical procedure for calculating the growth and decay of the amplitude of shock waves propagating into a one‐dimensional nonlinearly elastic body. ...

Abstract: A pseudo-rigid coin is a thin disk that can deform only to the extent of undergoing an arbitrary affine deformation in its own plane. The coupling of the classical rolling problem with this ...

Abstract: A finite element formulation for multilayered and thick plates, based on a multilayered theory, which was previously applied to a static analysis is extended to include vibration and stability analyses. First, a mass matrix ...

Abstract: The potential of a finite-element technique based on an egalitarian meshing of the space–time domain D of physical problems described by parabolic or hyperbolic differential equations is explored. A least-squares minimization ...