Abstract: The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) is a repository vault, mined deep into a salt strata. It eventually closes in on itself, encapsulating its contents. At room temperature salt may be ...

Abstract: In this paper we demonstrate that with sufficient external damping the bearing instability known as oil whip, commonly observed in rotating systems, can be eliminated. However, the amount of ...

Abstract: In this paper we develop a mathematical model and associated boundary-value problem for the encapsulating mechanism of a deeply imbedded salt vault at the Department of Energy’s Waste Isolation ...

Abstract: In a previous paper (, and , 2003, J. Strain Anal. Eng. Des., 38(2), pp. 181–185), we presented a new stress analysis procedure, the force stream function method. It established a general ...

Abstract: Velocity transducer placement to uniquely determine the angular velocity of a rigid body is investigated. The angular velocity of a rigid body can be determined with no fewer than five properly ...

Abstract: An accelerometer placement scheme to determine the angular velocities and accelerations of a rigid body is presented. We show that the least number of uniaxial accelerometers required in a ...