Abstract: The design of electromagnetic launchers includes a large materials selection component, with the use of available structural materials constrained by electrical performance considerations. Feasible ...

Abstract: The economic development of United States Gulf Coast geopressured-geothermal energy resources depends in part upon an improved understanding of reservoir rock response to long-term aquifer production. ...

Abstract: A continuum damage mechanics description of elastic-brittle fracture provides an appropriate constitutive model for impact simulations involving ceramic, rock, or similar materials. For an orthotropically ...

Abstract: The relatively recent development of very high-energy density pulsed power supplies has motivated a renewed interest in the structural design of electromagnetic launchers. Cascade design electromagnetic ...

Abstract: A wide range of engineering problems involve porous media modeling. General porous media models are highly nonlinear, geometrically complex, and must account for energy transfer between fluid and ...

Abstract: The development of high resolution, general purpose models of viscous, compressible flows is extremely difficult with existing system dynamics modeling tools. Published work admits to significant ...

Abstract: The physical systems modeling theory of bond graphs may be employed to represent the hysteretic deformation of continuous solids infinite strain elastic-plastic deformation. Second and fourth order ...

Abstract: The Vanishing Fiber Diameter (VFD) model for composite plasticity offers a computationally efficient approach to composite structural analysis and design problems. However this material model ...

Abstract: The utility of existing bond graph methods in the analysis of complex mechanical systems has been limited significantly by the absence of a tensor based vector modeling methodology. Topological ...