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: This paper reports the performance of a lithium bromide absorption chiller in a solar powered air conditioning system, when being operated conventionally. The chiller performance based on a ...

Abstract: In this paper, we present a novel analytic approach to solve the buckling instability of Euler-Bernoulli columns with arbitrarily axial nonhomogeneity and/or varying cross section. For various columns including pinned-pinned ...

Abstract: In the component mode synthesis method, the equation of motion in the generalized coordinates is built upon the undamped eigenvalue data of the component structures. Error is inevitable when ...

Abstract: A scheme is presented for calculating the vibrations of large multi-component flexible rotor systems based on the component mode synthesis method. It is shown that, by a modal expansion of the ...

Abstract: Material handling of compliant parts is one of the most critical and underresearched problems in the sheet metal stamping industry. The fundamental shortcoming of currently studied material ...

Abstract: Material handling of compliant sheet metal parts significantly impacts both part dimensional quality and production rate in the stamping industry. This paper advances previously developed material ...

Abstract: In studying crack problems in a piezoelectric material, many crack models have been proposed and some fracture criteria have been established. The author of 1 presented a new permeable crack ...