Abstract: An analytical‐numerical procedure is developed to investigate the postbuckling behavior of axially compressed, stiffened, laminated box columns. The box column is treated as a stiffened plate structure that may be idealized ...

Abstract: A precise integration algorithm has recently been proposed by Zhong (1994) for dynamic stiffness matrix computations, but he did not give a corresponding eigenvalue count method. The Wittrick-Williams ...

Abstract: The wave propagation constants of periodic structures are computed using the exact dynamic stiffness matrix of a typical substructure. The approach used is to show that wave propagation and the ...

Abstract: Rigorous kinematical analysis offers a general representation of displacement variation through thickness of multilayered plates, which allows discontinuous distribution of displacements across each ...

Abstract: A precise integration algorithm is proposed to solve the differential equation of surface wave propagation for stratified anisotropic material. The method can easily be extended to 3D wave ...

Abstract: In nonlinear eigenvalue problems, the standard method for calculating eigenvectors is to first calculate the eigenvalue. The nonlinear governing matrix is then formed using the calculated eigenvalue, a random disturbance ...

Abstract: A series of dynamic experiments for 20 models of high arch dams were recently performed on a shaking table, with the water ignored. The experimental results show that the seismic response and final failure of high arch ...