Abstract: When making statistical inferences, bootstrap resampling methods are often appealing because of less stringent assumptions about the distribution of the statistic(s) of interest. However, the procedures are not free of ...

Abstract: This paper is the sequel to a companion paper on bootstrap resampling that reviews bootstrap methodology for making statistical inferences for atmospheric science applications where the necessary assumptions are often not ...

Abstract: Blast-loaded structures respond dynamically to impulsive loads generated by an explosion. Individual components must possess adequate flexural and sectional shear capacity to survive such extreme loads. Unlike static loads, ...

Abstract: Recent simplifications of linear shell theory through consideration of transverse shear deformations and stress moments with axes normal to the shell middle surface suggest analogous approaches ...

Abstract: As a result of previous laboratory tests suggesting an effect of magnetic fields on the deposition of calcium carbonate, tunnel operators in Seoul, South Korea, assigned three tunnel sites, Namsan #3 tunnel and subway ...

Abstract: In the first part of the paper the basic equations of three-dimensional elasticity are formulated as a system of four equilibrium equations and seven stress displacement relations, together with ...

Abstract: The paper presents an asymptotic expansion procedure (with reference to decreasing values of wall-thickness shell-radius ratio) for the solutions of the linear theory of the three simultaneous ...