Abstract: The first and second-order radiation conditions for scattering waves in two and three-dimensional problems have been derived by virtue of a sequence of linear differential operators. The wave ...

Abstract: This paper proposes a substructural damage identification approach without the information of responses and forces at the interface degrees-of-freedom. It is based on the response reconstruction ...

Abstract: Environmental Scanning Electron Microscopy (E-SEM) is a technique which provides the capability to investigate surface morphologies over a variety of controllable environmental conditions. This paper ...

Abstract: A micromechanical principle is developed to determine the strain-rate sensitivity, relaxation behavior, and complex moduli of a linear viscoelastic composite comprised of randomly oriented spheroidal ...

Abstract: The influence of inclusion shape on some selected thermomechanical properties of isotropic viscoelastic composites is investigated by a micromechanical theory. These properties include: (i) the ...

Abstract: Fractal patterns are observed in computational mechanics of elastic-plastic transitions in two models of linear elastic/perfectly plastic random heterogeneous materials: (1) a composite made of ...

Abstract: An approach for structural response reconstruction in a substructure using the unit impulse response function in the wavelet domain is presented. The forces at the interface degrees-of-freedom ...

Abstract: The prevalent Mathematical Programming Neural Network (MPNN) models are surveyed, and MPNN models have been developed and applied to the unconstrained optimization of mechanisms. Algorithms which ...

Abstract: A new type of labyrinth gas seal for damping vibration and whirl, called the TAMSEAL, has been evaluated in both nonrotating and rotating tests at Texas A&M University. Test results of ...

Abstract: Performance-based design is commonly applied to projects that have difficulties in complying with prescriptive fire codes in the Far East. There are procedures for evaluating fire resisting construction and structural ...