Surface instability of a semi-infinite isotropic laminated plate under surface van der Waals forces

• Main Authors: Wang, X., Xu, Y., Zhou, Kun
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Surface instability; Van der Waals force; Surface energy; Wavenumber; Isotropic laminated plate
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/81205; http://hdl.handle.net/10220/39211; http://am.ippt.pan.pl/am/article/view/v67p137
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

By means of complex variable method, the present work demonstrates that the surface of a semi-infinite isotropic laminated plate that is being attracted to a rigid contactor through van der Waals forces is always unstable. Two distinct surface instability modes are identified, and their wavenumbers...