Abstract: Graphite blocks are important core components of the high temperature gas-cooled reactor. As these blocks are simply stacked in array, collisions among neighboring components may occur during ...

Abstract: The influences of couplers on wave propagation and mode localization in simply supported multispan beams with couplers consisting of lumped rotational stiffness and mass on supports are studied. A transfer matrix equation ...

Abstract: This study presents an efficient eigensolution method for nonproportionally damped systems. The proposed method is obtained by applying the accelerated Newton–Raphson technique and the orthonormal condition of the eigenvectors ...