1. Stability of natural convection in a vertical layer of Brinkman porous medium

   • B. M. Shankar
   • Jai Kumar
   • I. S. Shivakumara

   Original Paper 21 July 2016 Pages: 1 - 19

2. Effective Young’s modulus of nanoporous materials with cuboid unit cells

   • Tao Fan
   • Lihong Yang

   Original Paper 25 July 2016 Pages: 21 - 29

3. The research on thermoplastic properties cement composites impregnated with the waste of sulfur

   • Mariusz Książek

   Original Paper Open access 29 July 2016 Pages: 31 - 48

4. Exact frequency response of bars with multiple dampers

   • Giuseppe Failla
   • Francesco Paolo Pinnola
   • Gioacchino Alotta

   Original Paper 29 July 2016 Pages: 49 - 68

5. A new efficient higher-order shear deformation theory for a doubly curved laminated composite shell

   • Sandipan Nath Thakur
   • Chaitali Ray
   • Subrata Chakraborty

   Original Paper 29 July 2016 Pages: 69 - 87

6. Autofrettage and shakedown analyses of an internally pressurized thick-walled spherical shell based on two strain gradient plasticity solutions

   • J.-F. Wen
   • X.-L. Gao
   • S.-T. Tu

   Original Paper 08 August 2016 Pages: 89 - 105

7. Elastostatic solutions of a multilayered transversely isotropic piezoelectric system under axisymmetric loading

   • Jun Liu
   • Pengchong Zhang
   • Shan Lu

   Original Paper 10 August 2016 Pages: 107 - 128

8. Surface energy and thermal stress effect on nonlinear vibration of electrostatically actuated circular micro-/nanoplates based on modified couple stress theory

   • K. F. Wang
   • B. Wang
   • C. Zhang

   Original Paper 13 August 2016 Pages: 129 - 140

9. Vibration of bi-dimensional functionally graded Timoshenko beams excited by a moving load

   • Dinh Kien Nguyen
   • Quang Huan Nguyen
   • Van Tuyen Bui

   Original Paper 19 August 2016 Pages: 141 - 155

10. A general method of fractional dynamics, i.e., fractional Jacobi last multiplier method, and its applications

    • Shao-Kai Luo
    • Xiao-Tian Zhang
    • Jin-Man He

    Original Paper 23 August 2016 Pages: 157 - 174

11. First-exit problem of MDOF strongly nonlinear oscillators under wide-band random excitations without internal resonances

    • Jun Lan
    • Yong-Jun Wu

    Original Paper 27 August 2016 Pages: 175 - 186

12. Using high-order shear deformation theory in the analysis of Lamb’s waves propagation in materials reinforced with two families of fibers

    • Aleksandar Radaković
    • Gordana Bogdanović
    • Dragan Čukanović

    Original Paper 29 August 2016 Pages: 187 - 200

13. Cracking in heat-releasing perforated material

    • Vagif Mirsalimov

    Original Paper 31 August 2016 Pages: 201 - 214

14. A general disk form formulation for thermo-elastic analysis of functionally graded thick shells of revolution with arbitrary curvature and variable thickness

    • Mohammad Zamani Nejad
    • Mehdi Jabbari
    • Mehdi Ghannad

    Original Paper 02 September 2016 Pages: 215 - 231

15. On the interactive effects of mould taper and superheat on air gaps in continuous casting

    • B. J. Florio
    • M. Vynnycky
    • S. B. G. O’Brien

    Original Paper 06 September 2016 Pages: 233 - 254

16. Probabilistic solutions of nonlinear oscillators to subject random colored noise excitations

    • Siu-Siu Guo
    • Qingquan Shi

    Original Paper 12 September 2016 Pages: 255 - 267

17. Structural-probabilistic approach to determining the durability for structures of brittle materials

    • D. Babich
    • V. Bastun
    • T. Dorodnykh

    Original Paper 12 September 2016 Pages: 269 - 274

18. \(\varvec{N}\)-Layer concentric cylinder model (NCYL): an extended micromechanics-based multiscale model for nonlinear composites

    • Deepak K. Patel
    • Armanj D. Hasanyan
    • Anthony M. Waas

    Original Paper 12 September 2016 Pages: 275 - 306

19. Vibrating particles system algorithm for truss optimization with multiple natural frequency constraints

    • Ali Kaveh
    • Majid Ilchi Ghazaan

    Original Paper 20 September 2016 Pages: 307 - 322

20. Closed-form solution for circular microstructure-dependent Mindlin plates

    • Anssi T. Karttunen
    • J. N. Reddy
    • Jani Romanoff

    Original Paper 22 September 2016 Pages: 323 - 331

21. Exact solutions of three-dimensional equations of static transversely isotropic elastic model

    • Yu. A. Chirkunov
    • N. F. Belmetsev

    Original Paper 24 September 2016 Pages: 333 - 349

22. Theorem on a new conservation law for the dynamics of a position-dependent mass particle

    • Leonardo Casetta

    Note 09 August 2016 Pages: 351 - 355

23. Vibration of a vertical axially moving string or chain under the influence of gravity

    • C. Y. Wang

    Note 11 August 2016 Pages: 357 - 362