Static Analysis of Functionally Graded Piezoelectric Beams under Thermo-Electro-Mechanical Loads
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2011 This paper presents the analysis of static bending of beams made of functionally graded piezoelectric materials (FGPMs) under a combined thermo-electro-mechanical load.
Amin Komeili +3 more
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The Economics of Prefunding Social Security and Medicare Benefits [PDF]
This paper presents a detailed analysis of the economics of prefunding benefits for the aged, focusing on Social Security but indicating some of the analogous magnitudes for prefunding Medicare Benefits.
Andrew Samwick, Martin Feldstein
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Cylindrical bending of orthotropic plate strip based on nth-order plate theory [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper, cylindrical bending of orthotropic plates is presented using nth-order plate theory. Classical plate theory and parabolic shear deformation theory of Reddy can be considered as special cases of present theory.
Ghumare, Shantaram Manohar +2 more
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Public Radio in the United States: Does It Correct Market Failure or Cannibalize Commercial Stations? [PDF]
Radio signals are pure public goods whose total value to society is the sum of their value to advertisers and listeners. Because broadcasters can capture only part of the value of their product as revenue, there is the potential for a classic problem of ...
Joel Waldfogel, Steven T. Berry
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Common Interests or Common Polities? Reinterpreting the Democratic Peace [PDF]
The central claim of a rapidly growing literature in international relations is that members of pairs of democratic states are much less likely to engage each other in war or in serious disputes short of war than are members of other pairs of states. Our
Henry S. Farber, Joanne Gowa
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Nonlinear dynamic response of ES-FGM plate under blast load
Vietnam Journal of Mechanics, 2018 The paper studies nonlinear dynamic response of an eccentrically stiffened FGM (ES-FGM) plates resting on the elastic foundations subjected to blast and thermal loads with temperature dependent material properties using the Reddy's higher order shear ...
Pham Hong Cong, Nguyen Dinh Duc
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Can Having Fewer Partners Increase Prevalence of Aids? [PDF]
Under asymmetric information about sexual history, sexual activity creates externalities. Abstinence by those with few partners perversely increases the average probability of HIV infection in the pool of available partners.
Michael Kremer
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Organizational Form and Insurance Company Performance: Stocks versus Mutuals [PDF]
One unusual feature of the U.S. property-casualty insurance industry is the coexistence of stock and mutual companies. This paper explores the performance of these forms in the industry through a dynamic assessment of how mutual and stock insurance ...
Patricia Born +3 more
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A new simple shear deformation plate theory [PDF]
, 2017 This paper proposes a new simple shear deformation theory for isotropic plates. The present theory involves one unknown and one governing equation as in the classical plate theory, but it is capable of accurately capturing shear deformation effects.
Ngo, Tuan +3 more
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Thermal Stresses Vibration of Thick FGM Conical Shells by Using TSDT
Journal of Composites ScienceThe technical study of the presented manuscript is to investigate the thermal vibration of thick functionally graded material (FGM) conical shells with fully-homogeneous equations coupled in third-order shear-deformation theory (TSDT). The method in the generalized-differential quadrature (GDQ) approach is used to calculate the dynamic numerical data ...
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