Abstract: Hopf bifurcation of steady base flow and onset of vortex shedding over a transverse periodic array of circular cylinders is considered. The influence of transverse spacing on critical Reynolds ...

Abstract: This paper presents the first-known exact solutions for vibration of open circular cylindrical shells with multiple stepwise thickness variations based on the Flügge thin shell theory. An open cylindrical shell is assumed ...

Abstract: The free and forced linear response of a constrained string translating across an elastic foundation is examined in this paper. The transfer function method is used in the analysis. For the ...

Abstract: The dynamic response and stability of parametrically excited viscoelastic belts are investigated in these two consecutive papers. In the first paper, the generalized equation of motion is obtained ...

Abstract: The amplitude and existence conditions of nontrivial limit cycles are derived in the companion paper by the use of the method of multiple scales. In this paper, the stability for parametrically ...

Abstract: The flexural strength of a reinforced concrete, metallic or timber beam can be increased by bonding a thin plate, made of steel or fiber-reinforced polymer, to its tension face. A main failure mode of such plated beams ...

Abstract: Determination of flood damage frequencies constitutes a fundamental component of any comprehensive flood-risk methodology. A time series of flood damage may contain zero values. Therefore, the probability distribution of ...

Abstract: Joint distributions of rainfall intensity, duration, and depth or those of rainfall intensity and duration, rainfall depth and duration, and rainfall intensity and depth are important in hydrologic design and floodplain ...

Abstract: Using the copula method, bivariate distributions of flood peak and volume, and flood volume and duration were derived. A major advantage of this method is that marginal distributions of individual variables (i.e., flood ...

Abstract: Using the Gumbel–Hougaard copula, trivariate distributions of flood peak, volume, and duration were derived, and then conditional return periods were obtained. The derived distributions were tested using flood data from ...