Abstract: Tapered bars, axially compressed by concentrated loads applied at various locations along their axes, are discussed. The most common cases of support conditions are considered. The law of stiffness variation chosen covers ...

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Abstract: This paper summarizes the development during the last 50 years of tilting pad journal bearing analysis and design. The major impetus of this development was a landmark paper published by ...

Abstract: For numerical meteorological prediction, the determination of energy, momentum and moisture fluxes at the earth's surface requires knowledge of surface properties at a very coarse spatial resolution. A procedure is described ...

Abstract: This discussion presents a scheme that has been found to be very convenient for the three-dimensional representation of the pressure and temperature fields in the atmosphere both for forecasting and for aircraft operations. ...

Abstract: Continuous temperature measurements, 4 m above and 4 m below the sea surface, were obtained in the eye and in the inner and outer regions of maximum winds for a weak hurricane (decaying tropical storm). In the inner region ...

Abstract: The problem of a long, thin cylindrical shell with a soft core and subjected to a radial ring load is solved with the use of the Boussinesq-Neuber stress function for the core in conjunction ...

Abstract: Two nonlinear problems relating to buckling and parametric excitation of thin elastic cylindrical shells are considered. In the first, time-dependent end displacements are specified and, in the ...

Abstract: A liaison program between a university civil engineering department and civil engineers engaged in professional practice can be used to introduce undergraduate students to real engineering problems. A liaison program at ...

Abstract: The 1995 Hyogo-ken Nanbu (Kobe), Japan earthquake provided the world’s first experience with earthquake damage to new long-span bridges designed to 1990s seismic standards. This paper reviews damage and describes techniques ...