Abstract: Impact buckling of elastic bars with initial imperfections is studied. The latter are assumed to be a normally distributed random function of the space coordinate with given mean function and ...

Abstract: Axial impact buckling of perfectly elastic bars with initial imperfections is considered in a probabilistic setting. It is assumed that the initial imperfection function involved a single parameter, ...

Abstract: An infinite number of closed-form solutions is reported for a deterministically or stochastically nonhomogeneous beam, for both natural frequencies and reliabilities, for specialized cases. These ...

Abstract: The effect of the elastic Winkler and rotatory foundations on the stability of a pipe conveying fluid is investigated in this paper. Both elastic foundations are partially attached to the pipe. ...

Abstract: The method originally presented by Godunov and modified by Conte for solution of two-point boundary-value problems, is outlined here as applied to eigenvalue problems. The method (which avoids ...

Abstract: A deformation of a thin uniform cylindrical shell is considered under random axisymmetric loading. Mathematically this is equivalent to the study of a quasi-linear differential equation with ...

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a flexibility-based finite element formulation for beams with stochastic bending stiffness. We formulate the element-level finite element equilibrium equation in terms ...

Abstract: This paper investigates conditional simulation technique of multivariate Gaussian random fields by stochastic interpolation technique. For the first time in the literature a situation is studied ...

Abstract: In this study probabilistic and nonprobabilistic anti-optimization approaches are contrasted to evaluate their relative advantages and disadvantages while solving a mechanical problem in presence ...