Abstract: For most practical purposes, the focus is often on obtaining statistical moments of the response of stochastically driven oscillators than on the determination of pathwise response histories. In ...

Abstract: An analysis of large deformations of flexible membrane structures within the tension field theory is considered. A modification of the finite element procedure by Roddeman et al. (, , , , ...

Abstract: A new numeric-analytic technique is developed for two-point nonlinear boundary-value problems (BVPs) of engineering interest. The analytic part of the method is based on a conventional Adomian decomposition method (ADM). ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a derivative-free two-stage extended Kalman filter (2-EKF) especially suited for state and parameter identification of mechanical oscillators under Gaussian white noise. Two sources of modeling uncertainties ...

Abstract: The planar rocking of a prismatic rectangular rigid block about either of its corners is considered. The problem of homoclinic intersections of the stable and unstable manifolds of the perturbed ...

Abstract: A local and conditional linearization of vector fields, referred to as locally transversal linearization (LTL), is developed for accurately solving nonlinear and/or nonintegrable boundary value ...

Abstract: In this paper, an improved probabilistic linearization approach is developed to study the response of nonlinear single degree of freedom (SDOF) systems under narrow-band inputs. An integral equation for the probability ...

Abstract: The flow characteristics inside magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) plasma generators and seawater thrusters are analyzed and are compared using a three-dimensional computer model that solves the governing ...

Abstract: Two series of diffusion tests were performed to examine the degradation of dichloromethane (DCM) as it diffuses through clay. The first series showed the use of a synthetic leachate with no significant initial bacterial ...