Modern day technological advancement has resulted in manufacturing industries intensify the use and application of thin plates in their productions thereby, resulting in increased research awareness in the study of dynamic behavior of thin plates. This research analyzes the free vibration dynamic behavior of thin rectangular plates resting on elastic Winkler and Pasternak foundations using two-dimensional differential transformation method. The reliability of the obtained analytical solutions are validated with results presented in cited literature and confirmed very precise. However, the analytical solutions obtained are used to investigate the influence of elastic foundations, homogeneity and thickness variation on the dynamic behavior of the plates under clamped and condition. From the results obtained, it is realized that increase in non-homogenous material results in corresponding increase in natural frequency of the plates. Also, increase in Winkler, Pasternak and combine Winkler and Pasternak foundations stiffness leads to increase in natural frequency of the plates. Increase in thickness results to natural frequency increases. The findings will serve as benchmark for further study of plate vibration research.

For a given graph, let \(w_k\) denote the number of its walks with \(k\) vertices and let \(\lambda_1\) denote the spectral radius of its adjacency matrix. Nikiforov asked in [Linear Algebra Appl 418 (2006), 257–268] whether it is true in a connected bipartite graph that \(\lambda_1^r\geq\frac{w_{s+r}}{w_s}\) for every even \(s\geq 2\) and even \(r\geq 2\)? We construct here several infinite sequences of connected bipartite graphs with two main eigenvalues for which the ratio \(\frac{w_{s+r}}{\lambda_1^r w_s}\) is larger than~1 for every even \(s,r\geq 2\), and thus provide a negative answer to the above problem.

In a simple connected graph \(G\), eccentricity of a vertex is one of the first, distance-based invariants. The eccentricity of a vertex \(v\) in a connected graph \(G\) is the maximum distance of the vertex \(v\) to any other vertex \(u\). The total eccentricity of the graph \(G\) is the sum of the all vertex eccentricities. A graph \(G\) is called an apex tree if it has a vertex \(x\) such that \(G-x\) is a tree. In this work we have found the graph having extremal total eccentricity of \(k\)-apex trees.

A graph \(\Gamma\) (simple, finite, undirected) with an \(\Omega\)-covering has an \((\alpha,\delta)\)-\(\Omega\)-antimagic labeling if the weights of all subgraphs \(\Omega\) of graph \(\Gamma\) constitute an arithmetic progression with the common difference \(\delta\). Such a~graph is called super \((\alpha,\delta)\)-\(\Omega\)-antimagic if \(\nu(V(\Gamma))= \{ 1,2,3,\dots,|V(\Gamma)|\}\). In the present paper, the cycle coverings of subdivision of fan graphs has been considered and results are proved for several differences.

In this paper, we obtained some new properties of Zagreb indices. We mainly give explicit formulas to the second Zagreb index of semitotal-line graph (or middle graph), semitotal-point graph and total transformation graphs \(G^{xyz}.\)

The aim of this paper is to construct left sided and right sided integral operators in a unified form. These integral operators produce various well known integral operators in the theory of fractional calculus. Formulated integral operators of this study include generalized fractional integral operators of Riemann-Liouville type and operators containing Mittag-Leffler functions in their kernels. Also boundedness of all these fractional integral operators is derived from the boundedness of unified integral operators. The existence of new integral operators may have useful consequences in applied sciences besides in fractional calculus.

In this paper, we study the existence of positive solutions for boundary value problem of sixth-order elastic beam equation of the form \(-u^{(6)}(t)=q(t)f(t,u(t),u^{‘}(t),u^{”}(t),u^{”’}(t),u^{(4)}(t),u^{(5)}(t)),~~0<t<1,\) with conditions \(u(0)=u^{‘}(1)=u^{”}(0)=u^{”’}(1)=u^{(4)}(0)=u^{(5)}(1)=0,\) where \(f\in C([0,1]\times[0,\infty)\times[0,\infty)\times(-\infty,0]\times(-\infty,0]\times[0,\infty)\times[0,\infty)\rightarrow [0,\infty))\). The boundary conditions describe the deformation of an elastic beam simply supported at left and clamped at right by sliding clamps. We give sufficient conditions that allow us to obtain the existence of positive solution. The main tool used in the proof is the Leray-Schauder nonlinear alternative and Leray-Schauder fixed point theorem. As an application, we also give example to illustrate the results obtained.

In this paper we establish a fixed point theorem for generalized weakly contractive mappings in the setting of \(b\)-metric spaces and prove the existence and uniqueness of a fixed point for a self-mappings satisfying the established theorem. Our result extends and generalizes the result of Cho [1]. Finally, we provided an example in the support of our main result.

In this paper, we explore the existence of nontrivial solution for the fifth-order three-point boundary value problem of the form \(u^{(5)}(t)+f(t,u(t))=0,\quad\text 0<t<1,\) with boundary conditions \(u(0)=0,\quad u^{‘}(0)=u^{”}(0)=u^{”’}(0)=0,\quad u(1)=\alpha u(\eta),\) where \(0<\eta<1\), \(\alpha\in\mathbb{R}\), \(\alpha\eta^{4}\neq1\), \(f\in C([0,1]\times\mathbb{R},\mathbb{R})\). Under certain growth conditions on the non-linearity \(f\) and using Leray-Schauder nonlinear alternative, we prove the existence of at least one solution of the posed problem. Furthermore, the obtained results are further illustrated by mean of some examples.

Polynomiography is the art and science of visualization in approximation of zeros of polynomials. In this report, we visualize polynomiography of some complex polynomials via iterative methods presented in [1].