Abstract: The normal impact of an elastic sphere against a rigid plane is described using an elastic solution for a heavy sphere on a rigid plane found by Bondareva (1970). The solution is valid only ...

Abstract: In this paper the equilibrium configuration of a thin rectangular plate, supported on an elastic foundation that reacts in compression only, is studied. It is assumed that the foundation is ...

Abstract: The equilibrium and steady forms of a pulley belt are determined. We consider large displacements of the central line of the belt for a special class of nonlinear stress-strain relations which ...

Abstract: In 1946, L. A. Galin proposed an ingenious solution to the problem of analytically determining the plastic region completely surrounding a circular hole in a thin initially elastic plate subject to tensile stress at infinity. ...