Abstract: The problem of the moment distribution resulting from a uniform pressure load acting over the surface of a circular plate containing a ring of equally spaced circular holes with, and without, ...

Abstract: A survey of computer software use in the pressure vessel industry was conducted by means of a questionnaire that reached 707 active professionals in the industry. 249 filled-in questionnaires ...

Abstract: Stresses as calculated by two available computer programs for the analysis of pressure vessels are compared to photoelastic data obtained for a series of pressure vessels with hemispherical and ...

Abstract: One of the most important conditions necessary for high-speed railway traffic is a clear reduction of the unsprung masses. The fact that even with light-weight wheelsets, the steel tires still ...

Abstract: Modern large capacity atmospheric steel storage tanks incur differential settlement of the soil foundations upon which they rest due to the Boussinesq effect [1, 2]. The difference in settlement ...

Abstract: The theory of a previous paper which was designed for nonhardening plastic deformation of simple and compound cylinders in axisymmetric generalized plane strain is extended to include linear ...