Abstract: The bending of a circular corrugated diaphragm which is clamped along its outer edge and clamped to a shaft at its geometric center is analyzed. The shaft may undergo small axial displacements ...

Abstract: The windmill blade is treated as a semi-infinite orthotropic wedge with free-free boundary conditions. A closed form solution for the deflections and stresses is obtained as a function of the ...

Abstract: In the past, the mechanics of repeated rolling and sliding contact could only be treated for the idealized, elastic-perfectly-plastic (and isotropic) cyclic materials behavior, albeit approximately. ...

Abstract: Molten salts are a promising medium for thermal energy transfer and storage. They have a very low vapor pressure and most are unreactive in air. Over the past 3 decades, Sandia National ...