Abstract: Design charts are presented for the design of a stiffened coupled structural wall with a strong beam located somewhere along the building height. The analysis is based on a continuous medium approach with the deflection ...

Abstract: A compact white light fringe image velocimeter (WFIV) is used to measure laminar flow. It is demonstrated, by comparison with similar measurements employing a differential laser Doppler velocimeter ...

Abstract: The time-averaged mixing behavior of a circular jet issuing into a counterflow is investigated in the laboratory at a number of jet-to-current velocity ratios between 3 and 15. The velocity field is obtained from laser ...

Abstract: An analytical method for investigating the effect of a stiffening beam on coupled shear walls is presented. Closed‐form solutions to the problem based on the continuous medium technique are obtained with the position of ...

Abstract: We investigate the penetration and spreading of a round jet into an ambient counterflow using the planar laser-induced fluorescence (LIF) technique. The LIF images enable us to obtain the instantaneous concentration field ...

Abstract: The steady-state responses of damped periodic systems with finite or infinite degrees-of-freedom and one nonlinear disorder to harmonic excitation are investigated by using the Lindstedt-Poincare ...

Abstract: The localized modes of periodic systems with infinite degrees-of-freedom and having one or two nonlinear disorders are examined by using the Lindstedt-Poincare (L-P) method. The set of nonlinear ...

Abstract: An analytical model is proposed for crack analysis of reinforced concrete tension members in which the tension‐stiffening effect has been taken into account. To make the model simple and practical, a new bond stress ...

Abstract: Based on a proposed bond stress distribution function that was successfully applied to the analysis of reinforced‐concrete members under tension, a two‐dimensional smeared crack model for reinforced‐concrete structures is ...

Abstract: The normal mode localization in nearly periodic systems with one-degree-of-freedom subsystems and a single subsystem departing from the regularity in one, two, and three dimensions has been ...