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We analyze the collective buckling of a row of vertical beams with their lower ends built into an elastic substrate. The beams interact among themselves through the deformation of the substrate. The present an...
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Electrically forced shear horizontal vibration of a circular cylindrical elastic shell with a finite piezoelectric actuator
We analyze anti-plane vibrations of a circular cylindrical elastic shell electrically driven by a piezoelectric actuator. The equations of linear elasticity and linear piezoelectricity are used. The mathematic...
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Propagation of thickness-twist waves in a multi-sectioned piezoelectric plate of 6 mm crystals
We study thickness-twist vibrations and waves in an unbounded, multi-sectioned piezoelectric plate of crystals with 6 mm symmetry or polarized ceramics. An exact solution from the three-dimensional equations o...
