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11 Citations
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Nanocapacitors have received a great deal of attention in recent years due to the promises of high energy storage density as device scaling continues unabated in the nanoscale era. High energy storage capacity is a key ingredient for many nanoelectro...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,560 Views
13 Pages

Analytical Study of a Circular Thin Plate Contacting with an Elastic Sphere

  • Wei Han,
  • Yanjie Yang,
  • Yiyong Huang,
  • Dan Xiong and
  • Xiaoqian Chen

18 November 2022

The problem that is addressed here is that of a circular thin plate clamped peripherally with frictionless contact to an elastic sphere. A complete and effective solution to this problem is developed to describe the relationship between the contact f...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
707 Views
40 Pages

15 August 2025

The closed-form solution of the problem regarding elastic contact between a transversely, uniformly loaded circular membrane and a spring-reset rigid flat circular plate has potential application value in sensor developments or bending-free shell des...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,785 Views
21 Pages

9 December 2019

The acoustic black hole (ABH) can be utilized to achieve aggregation of flexural wave in structures with the feature that the thickness gradually reduced to zero with a power exponent no less than 2. The above characteristics could be applied in vibr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,708 Views
6 Pages

31 December 2010

In this paper Homotopy-Perturbation method (HPM) is introduced to obtain the approximate solution of the governing differential equation of deflection of thin circular plate under uniform loads with two different types of boundary conditions. The edg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,136 Views
26 Pages

The in-plane elastoplastic failure mechanism of plate-tube-connected steel circular arches with inverted triangular cross sections is investigated in this study by using theoretical derivation and numerical simulation. First, the in-plane elastic buc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,573 Views
21 Pages

4 December 2023

To cater to the problems of a poor working environment, a large amount of rebound, and the high energy consumption of sprayed concrete in tunnel engineering, this paper proposes a new support scheme with a steel corrugated plate combined with mold ba...

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  • Open Access
122 Views
19 Pages

This paper presents an analytical model for the hereditary vibrations of a coupled circular plate system interconnected by viscoelastic creep layers. The system is represented as a discrete-continuous chain of thin, isotropic plates with time-depende...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,126 Views
21 Pages

20 February 2019

In this paper, a comparison for the effect of different arrangement of point masses on vibroacoustic behavior of parabolic tapered annular circular plate with different taper ratios are analyzed by keeping the total mass of the plate plus point masse...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,632 Views
16 Pages

Heat Transfer Analysis of the Flat Plate Solar Thermal Collectors with Elliptical and Circular Serpentine Tubes

  • Shirin Rostami,
  • Ag Sufiyan Abd Hamid,
  • Kamaruzzaman Sopian,
  • Hasila Jarimi,
  • Anwor Bassim and
  • Adnan Ibrahim

29 April 2022

In this study, the heat transfer characteristics of the flat plate collectors with circular and elliptical serpentine tubes are theoretically analyzed and compared in terms of m˙, Re, Nu, hfi, FR, Qu, and μTh under various water flow rates an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
655 Views
19 Pages

Performance of HSC Continuous Deep Beams with Asymmetric Circular Openings: Hybrid FRP Versus Steel Plate Strengthening

  • Mohammed Al-Mahbashi,
  • Hussein Elsanadedy,
  • Aref Abadel,
  • Husain Abbas,
  • Tarek Almusallam and
  • Yousef Al-Salloum

18 November 2025

In recent years, the demand for high-strength concrete (HSC) for buildings has been steadily increasing. Continuous HSC deep beams are frequently employed in various structural applications, including high-rise buildings, bridges, and parking garages...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,220 Views
55 Pages

A nonlinear finite element model for circular and annular micro-plates under thermal and mechanical loading was developed using a third-order shear deformation theory. In the kinematic assumptions, a change in plate thickness is allowed, and no trans...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,396 Views
19 Pages

24 September 2019

This study aims to investigate the joint strength of longitudinal plate-to-high-strength steel circular hollow-section X-type joints under plate axial load. The material properties of high-strength steel with nominal yield strengths of 460, 650, 900,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,819 Views
18 Pages

Investigations on Flexural Strength of a Columnar Saline Model Ice under Circular Plate Central Loading

  • Yukui Tian,
  • Weihang Zhao,
  • Chaoge Yu,
  • Xuhao Gang,
  • Peng Lu and
  • Qianjin Yue

26 September 2023

The properties of ice strength have a significant impact on the design and safety of structures in ice-infested waters. To analyze the flexural strength of columnar saline model ice, we conducted circular plate center loading tests at the Small Ice M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,633 Views
31 Pages

8 December 2018

This paper compares the vibroacoustic behavior of a tapered annular circular plate having different parabolic varying thickness with different combinations of rectangular and concentric stiffener patches keeping the mass of the plate and the patch co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,101 Views
20 Pages

12 June 2023

This study aims to provide analytical solutions for circular plates coated or undercoated with functionally graded materials (FGMs) having Young’s modulus functionality through the radius. The circular plates are subjected to thermal loads in r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,144 Views
24 Pages

22 March 2019

Free vibration analysis of the porous functionally graded circular plates has been presented on the basis of classical plate theory. The three defined coupled equations of motion of the porous functionally graded circular/annular plate were decoupled...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,201 Views
12 Pages

22 December 2024

An analytical solution is presented for axisymmetric free vibration analysis of a functionally graded piezoelectric circular plate on the basis of the three-dimensional elastic theory of piezoelectric materials. The material properties are assumed to...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
745 Views
17 Pages

Calculus Through Transfer-Matrix Method of Continuous Circular Plates for Applications to Chemical Reactors

  • Laurenţiu-Eusebiu Chifor,
  • Mihai-Sorin Tripa,
  • Ilie-Cristian Boldor,
  • Cosmin-Sergiu Brisc,
  • Nicolae Nedelcu,
  • Andrei-Călin Szîrbe,
  • Liviu Bolunduţ,
  • Carmen-Gabriela Băcilă,
  • Veronica Mîndrescu and
  • Viorica-Mihaela Suciu
  • + 2 authors

22 August 2025

This paper presents an original approach through Transfer-Matrix Method applied for the calculus of the continuous circular plate embedded at the exterior circumference, charged with asymmetrical uniform load on the entire upper surface of the plate....

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,184 Views
14 Pages

Bending and Buckling of Circular Sandwich Plates with a Hardened Core

  • Zizi Pi,
  • Zilong Zhou,
  • Zongbai Deng and
  • Shaofeng Wang

22 August 2021

Hard-core sandwich plates are widely used in the field of aviation, aerospace, transportation, and construction thanks to their superior mechanical properties such as sound absorption, heat insulation, shock absorption, and so on. As an important for...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,822 Views
16 Pages

25 March 2020

The out-of-plane bending problems of functionally graded thin plates with a circular hole are studied for two-dimensional deformations. The thin plates have arbitrary variations of elastic properties along the radial direction. The general solutions...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,361 Views
16 Pages

18 September 2022

In this paper, several analyses were conducted to investigate the buckling behavior of Functionally Graded Material (FGM) thin plates with various circular cutout arrangements. The computer model was simulated using the Finite Element (FE) software A...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,961 Views
29 Pages

24 March 2022

The paper presents a method of calculation of rotationally symmetric circular plates, supported on piles and having a stiffness changing in the radial direction. The method is based on the superposition rule, i.e., an initial plate supported on piles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,635 Views
20 Pages

20 April 2022

The purpose of this paper is to study the axisymmetric vibrations of circular three-layered sandwich plates with a frequency-dependent fractional viscoelastic core and elastic face sheets. First, the equations of motion and related boundary condition...

  • Article
  • Open Access
936 Views
10 Pages

An Analysis of Nonlinear Axisymmetric Structural Vibrations of Circular Plates with the Extended Rayleigh–Ritz Method

  • Jie Han,
  • Xianglin Gong,
  • Chencheng Lian,
  • Huimin Jing,
  • Bin Huang,
  • Yangyang Zhang and
  • Ji Wang

21 April 2025

The nonlinear deformation and vibrations of elastic plates represent a fundamental problem in structural vibration analysis, frequently encountered in engineering applications and classical mathematical studies. In the field of studying the nonlinear...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,315 Views
14 Pages

An Adaptive Method for Reducing Vibrations of Circular Plates with Recursive Identification

  • Lucyna Leniowska,
  • Marcin Grochowina,
  • Mariusz Sierżęga and
  • Bogumił Hołota

6 March 2022

The article presents an adaptive control procedure based on the online recursive identification of the best estimated model of plate bending vibration for vibration cancelation. The test object was a thin, circular aluminum plate, clamped at the edge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
4,549 Views
13 Pages

8 January 2021

The motion of a circular elastic plate floating on the surface is investigated in the time-domain. The solution is found from the single frequency solutions, and the method to solve for the circular plate is given using the eigenfunction matching met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,800 Views
13 Pages

18 December 2021

An experimental investigation is presented for the stress distributions in functionally graded plates containing a circular hole. On the basis of the authors’ previously constructed theoretical model, two kinds of graded plates made of discrete...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,129 Views
26 Pages

Deformations of Single-Crystal Silicon Circular Plate: Theory and Experiment

  • Sergey Lychev,
  • Alexander Digilov,
  • Gleb Demin,
  • Evgeney Gusev,
  • Ivan Kushnarev,
  • Nikolay Djuzhev and
  • Vladimir Bespalov

23 January 2024

In this paper, the experimental methodology for the single-crystal circular plate deformation measurement and subsequent procedure for the quantitation of its mechanical properties are developed. The procedure is based on a new numerical-analytical s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,110 Views
18 Pages

27 July 2022

This paper aims to study the hygrothermal buckling of smart graphene/piezoelectric circular nanoplates lying on an elastic medium and subjected to an external electric field. The circular nanoplates are made of piezoelectric polymer reinforced with g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,535 Views
22 Pages

9 July 2018

In this study, we obtained an electroelastic solution for functionally graded piezoelectric circular plates under the action of combined mechanical loads which include the uniformly distributed loads on the upper surface of the plate and the radial f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,358 Views
32 Pages

22 August 2022

Essential to the design and development of circular contact mode capacitive pressure sensors is the ability to accurately predict the contact radius, maximum stress, and shape of a laterally loaded circular membrane in frictionless contact with a con...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,096 Views
28 Pages

4 March 2020

In this study, a multi-parameter perturbation method is used for the solution of a functionally-graded, thin, circular piezoelectric plate. First, by assuming that elastic, piezoelectric, and dielectric coefficients of the functionally-graded materia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,433 Views
25 Pages

Modal Parameters Estimation of Circular Plates Manufactured by FDM Technique Using Vibrometry: A Comparative Study

  • Martin Hagara,
  • Miroslav Pástor,
  • Pavol Lengvarský,
  • Peter Palička and
  • Róbert Huňady

18 November 2024

This paper presents a comparative study focused on a modal parameters estimation of specimens manufactured by the FDM technique using a fixed embedded vibrometer based on the laser Doppler principle and roving hammer-impact method. Part of this paper...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,019 Views
26 Pages

25 July 2025

Aiming at the goal of preparing high-quality coatings, this paper reviews the progress on circular arc source structure and magnetic field arc controlling technology in arc ion plating (AIP), with a focus on design characteristics of the different st...

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  • Open Access
822 Views
16 Pages

12 March 2025

This study is based on typical thermal studies on thick, functionally graded material (FGM)-coupled plates and circular shells. Numerical studies have been previously published by researchers on the linear first-order shear deformation theory (FSDT)...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
4,624 Views
24 Pages

2 September 2021

This article deals with the unsteady flow in rotating circular plates located at a finite distance filled with Reiner-Rivlin nanofluid. The Reiner-Rivlin nanofluid is electrically conducting and incompressible. Furthermore, the nanofluid also accommo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,627 Views
27 Pages

18 September 2021

In this study, the large deformation problem of a functionally-graded thin circular plate subjected to transversely uniformly-distributed load and with different moduli in tension and compression (bimodular property) is theoretically analyzed, in whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,858 Views
15 Pages

Effect of Orientation and Aspect Ratio of an Internal Flat Plate on Natural Convection in a Circular Enclosure

  • Anjie Wang,
  • Cunlie Ying,
  • Yingdong Wang,
  • Lijun Yang,
  • Yunjian Ying,
  • Lulu Zhai and
  • Wei Zhang

2 December 2019

This work presents a numerical investigation on natural convection in a circular enclosure with an internal flat plate at Ra = 106. The cross-section area of the plate was fixed at three values, H·W/D2 = 0.01, 0.04, and 0.09, in which H and W...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,428 Views
11 Pages

23 December 2024

This study proposes a platinum catalytic plate burner with a clover-shaped microchannel design to reduce the maximum temperature difference (ΔTmax) and improve long-term hydrogen production (HP) performance in an autothermal methanol steam refo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,134 Views
23 Pages

An Analytical Solution for Steel Plate Strengthened Circular Tunnels with Various Interface Slip Modes

  • Wuzhou Zhai,
  • Keguo Sun,
  • Dongming Zhang,
  • Hongwei Huang and
  • David Chapman

5 August 2022

A simplified analytical solution for steel plate strengthened circular tunnel concrete linings is presented, considering various interface slip modes. The full derivation for the analytical solution is introduced in detail, from which explicit expres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,954 Views
17 Pages

26 September 2023

We explore the mechanism and law of reducing the resistance of soil cutting tools by achieving the self-excited vibration mode through the modification of the soil-engaging surface spectrum. Around the fundamental resonance point of the soil, and sup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,909 Views
25 Pages

20 March 2025

Thermal management of lithium-ion batteries is crucial for enhancing the performance and safety of electric vehicles. This study proposes a novel liquid cooling plate featuring gradually varied circular notched fins (GV-CNF) to improve the thermal ma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,525 Views
18 Pages

3 April 2020

In this paper, we analytically dealt with the usually so-called prestressed annular membrane problem, that is, the problem of axisymmetric deformation of the annular membrane with an initial in-plane tensile stress, in which the prestressed annular m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,114 Views
22 Pages

22 November 2021

Functionally graded materials (FGMs) structures are increasingly used in engineering due to their superior mechanical and material properties, and the FGMs plate with cutouts is a common structural form, but research on the vibration characteristics...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,541 Views
19 Pages

15 October 2021

This study investigates the single-phase heat transfer, pressure drop, and temperature distribution of water in an industrial plate and shell heat exchanger (PSHE) under high-temperature conditions. In this experiment, the hot fluid flows downward on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,736 Views
25 Pages

Influence of Dielectric Plate Parameters on the Reflection Coefficient of a Planar Aperture Antenna

  • Vanja Mandrić,
  • Slavko Rupčić,
  • Snježana Rimac-Drlje and
  • Ismail Baxhaku

16 February 2023

In this article, an aperture antenna excited by a waveguide with a circular cross-section and covered with a dielectric plate was analyzed via simulation calculation and verified via measurements. The influence of the geometrical and electromagnetic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,757 Views
32 Pages

2 May 2023

A nonlinear finite element model for axisymmetric bending of micro circular/annular plates under thermal and mechanical loading was developed using quasi-3D Reddy third-order shear deformation theory. The developed finite element model accounts for a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,467 Views
13 Pages

7 August 2017

Vibration frequencies and modes for the thickness-shear vibrations of infinite partially-electroded circular AT-cut quartz plates are obtained by solving the two-dimensional (2D) scalar differential equation derived by Tiersten and Smythe. The Mathie...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,099 Views
12 Pages

Highly Sensitive FPW-Based Microsystem for Rapid Detection of Tetrahydrocannabinol in Human Urine

  • Je-Wei Lan,
  • Chia-Hsu Hsieh,
  • I-Yu Huang,
  • Yu-Cheng Lin,
  • Tsung-Yi Tsai and
  • Chua-Chin Wang

29 November 2017

This paper presents a highly sensitive flexural plate-wave (FPW)-based microsystem for rapid detection of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) in human urine. First, a circular-type interdigital transducer (IDT) was integrated with a circular-type silicon-groo...

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