Abstract: This paper presents an exact analysis for the buckling value of a concentrated load applied to a shallow circular arch. The effects of load offset and initial imperfections with the same form ...

Abstract: An inverse procedure is developed for obtaining exact solutions to the one-dimensional inhomogeneous wave equation. Transformations of the independent spatial variable and the dependent variable ...

Abstract: Strain softening, no matter how small, is usually accompanied by localization of the softening deformation field. Inside the zone of localization, a decrease in stress is accompanied by an ...

Abstract: This investigation explores a method for predicting deformation in the vicinity of interfaces of dissimilar materials. Instead of using a slide‐line algorithm or interface elements, a new nonlocal approach for simulating ...

Abstract: A combined plasticity and damage mechanics model for concrete is developed within the general framework of the internal variable theory of thermodynamics. The necessity of using both plasticity and damage mechanics is ...

Abstract: Although most materials are anisotropic to some extent, most yield surfaces are either chosen to be isotropic or to be a smooth anisotropic surface with no connection to the elastic anisotropic ...

Abstract: A phenomenological algorithm, motivated by the “mode I” microcrack opening and closing mechanism, is developed for the deactivation and reactivation of the damage effects as modeled by certain ...

Abstract: Abrupt thermal fluxes on the first walls of fusion reactors represent a loading environment that requires advanced analytical capabilities. Solutions are needed to a wide range of postulated ...