Abstract: The increasing importance of life science in all engineering is prompting departments in the traditional engineering disciplines to offer life science as part of their curricula. Students who ...

Abstract: Division, Mechanisms and Robotics Award. Upon receiving the award from Subash C. Sinha, Design Engineering Division Chair, Dr. Uicker made the following brief comments....

Abstract: The problem of selecting optimal machining conditions, where the formulation involves the use of empirical relations, is considered. Since both randomness and fuzziness are associated with empirical ...

Abstract: Nondestructive evaluation (NDE) techniques offer time-efficient methods for determining properties as well as characterizing defects in materials and structures. Application of these NDE techniques ...

Abstract: Rotor-fluid interactions can cause self-excited shaft vibrations of high density turbomachinery. Often the amplitude of the vibrations reaches unacceptably high amplitudes and the scheduled power ...

Abstract: Experts from the Polymeric Materials community from four continents met in December, 2000 at the Third International Workshop, Poly’2000 in London. The Poly conference series is sponsored by ...

Abstract: The author is to be commended for his new approach to the important problem of calculation of natural frequencies for anisotropic plates. However, two comments are in order.

Abstract: The wavelet transform is used to capture localized features in either the time domain or the frequency domain of the response of a multi-degree-of-freedom linear system subject to a nonstationary ...

Abstract: A numerical study of the use of electrorheological (ER) fluids and piezoelectric (PZT) actuators to control random vibrations of stiffened composite panels is presented. Active control of stiffness ...

Abstract: It is known that, when the mechanical coupling between the substructures is weak, small imperfections in a periodic structure can induce vibration localization. This phenomenon could lead to ...