Abstract: Expendable bathythermograph records are combined with stability information to provide estimates of the potential energy associated with vertical displacements in the tropical and subtropical North Atlantic thermocline. ...

Abstract: In some circumstances, elastic-plastic deformation occurs in which both components of strain are finite. Such situations fall outside the scope of classical plasticity theory which assumes either ...

Abstract: The effects of Strength Differential (SD) and plastic compressibility for materials obeying the modified von Mises yield criterion were exemplified by solving two boundary-value problems. The ...

Abstract: Motivated by the management system requirement of the Intermodal Surface Transportation and Efficiency Act, efforts are being made toward expanding an existing pavement management system (PMS) into a more comprehensive ...

Abstract: An innovative method of applying a spatial autocorrelation function to analyze pavement image data is presented in this paper. One of the major advantages of using a spatial autocorrelation function is its capability of ...

Abstract: Implementing risk-based Great Lakes water level management and forecasting, as recommended by the International Joint Commission, would allow managers and other interests affected by fluctuating water levels to consider ...

Abstract: Gurson’s mixed hardening plasticity model (which takes into account the progressive damage due to void nucleation and growth of an initially dense material), with strain and stress-controlled ...

Abstract: In Part I [1] of this paper, Gurson’s mixed hardening plasticity model with strain and stress-controlled nucleations, was used in a large deformation finite element program to study the plastic ...

Abstract: The linear analysis in the frequency domain is presented for the surge motion of a tension leg platform (TLP) in the case of random waves only and random waves with constant current. A ...