Abstract: Plate systems often involve variable rigidities because of changes in the cross section or reinforcement. The finite strip method provides an efficient method of analysis for some plate configurations. However, in the ...

Abstract: A semianalytical procedure is presented for the axial buckling of elastic columns with step‐varying profiles. Profiles with continuous variations can be approximated, to any desired degree of accuracy, by a series of step ...

Abstract: The loads acting on railroad tracks due to the. passage of trains have a random character. Similarly, the track resistance parameters exhibit various degrees of randomness. The purpose of this study is to incorporate the ...