Abstract: An exact solution is provided to determine the effects of the free end boundary conditions and the slenderness ratios on the critical speed of two dimensional, axially moving materials. The ...

Abstract: A web is termed wrinkled when one of the in-plane principal stresses is tensile and the other is sufficiently compressive. A criterion is derived that predicts wrinkling of isotropic, compressible ...

Abstract: Nonlinearly distributed in-plane tension at the edges of a thin, flat, rectangular material with small flexural stiffness, called a web, can cause it to wrinkle. Airy stress functions are ...

Abstract: A systematic analysis method for solving boundary value problems in structural mechanics is presented. Euler-Lagrange differential equations are transformed into integral form with respect to ...

Abstract: A methodology to synthesize a predesignated acoustic response using a structure driven by multiple induced-strain actuators, e.g., piezoelectric (PZT) patches, is presented. The proposed approach ...

Abstract: A two-step method is presented for the determination of reliable approximations of the probability density function of the forced response of a randomly mistuned bladed disk. Under the assumption ...

Abstract: Von Karman nonlinear plate equations are modified to describe the motion of a wide, axially moving web with small flexural stiffness under transverse loading. The model can represent a paper ...