Abstract: Construction of Boston's 4.4‐billion dollar Central Artery/Third Harbor Tunnel project will begin in the near future, with completion scheduled for the late 1990s. The project's expected significant impact on the regional ...

Abstract: In simulating cyclic plasticity with several existing “unified” constitutive equations, the predicted hysteresis loops are “oversquare” with respect to experimentally-observed behavior. To eliminate ...

Abstract: An approximate analytical method is presented for determining the transmission and reflection of elastic waves at a frictional boundary. The method is applied to the case of plane harmonic shear ...

Abstract: A physical model for hardening hysteresis is presented. An approximate analytical technique is used to determine the steady-state response of a single-degree-of-freedom system and a multi-degree-of-freedom ...

Abstract: An approximate solution procedure is presented for a class of steady vibro-impact problems consisting of adjacent structures separated by a gap and subjected to harmonic base excitation. The ...

Abstract: An approximate method of analysis is presented for determining the reflection, refraction, and absorption of obliquely incident planar time-harmonic P or SV waves at a frictional interface between ...

Abstract: It is now possible to predict quantitatively the high temperature mechanical behavior of pure metals, solid solution alloys and dispersion hardened alloys, based on an understanding of a number ...