Abstract: Determination of the response time of a solenoid actuated mechanism is complicated by the fact that coil inductance varies with plunger position. In addition, the mechanical force developed by ...

Abstract: This paper chronicles a kinematic study of the lower spine. The synthesis of a four-bar mechanism to serve as an implanted appliance is shown. The device and the radio-logical technique for ...

Abstract: An energy method is employed to analyze the damping in the fundamental mode of a simply-supported sandwich beam with viscoelastic core material sandwiched between two elastic metallic layers ...

Abstract: The nonlinear response of a pendulum model is compared to that of fluid motion in a spherical container undergoing lateral oscillations. It is observed that the pendulum does not duplicate the ...

Abstract: Spin-stabilized spacecraft with sloshing fluid stores are known to be a source of dynamic instability for certain spacecraft configurations. A time varying linear feedback control law was developed, ...

Abstract: Techniques for identifying and evaluating the physical parameters of nonlinear dynamic systems have been investigated A method has been developed for converting the measured dynamic response of ...

Abstract: An analysis is made of the axisymmetric elastic and plastic stresses and deformations in thick-wall cylindrical shells subjected to internal dynamic pressures. The study utilizes a direct numerical ...