Abstract: Classical and even modern developments of numerical integration have not been directly concerned with the frequency-response of integration algorithms. The frequency-response characteristics of an ...

Abstract: An instrumental variable estimation of the parameters of an unknown system is augmented with several additional computations and compared with a least squares estimation. Good results follow from ...

Abstract: Design of engineering components for reliable service in conditions where severe load and thermal transients are encountered requires special care. The individual nature of each such application ...

Abstract: For thick tubes subjected to internal pressure, the estimation of creep-life by the cumulative damage criterion requires knowledge of the time variation of stress and strain at certain critical ...

Abstract: A transversely isotropic fiber reinforced elastomer’s hyperelasticity is characterized using a series of constitutive tests (uniaxial tension, uniaxial compression, simple shear, and constrained ...

Abstract: A rectangular gas film bearing with inherently compensated feedholes evenly distributed around the interior is analyzed. The feedhole boundary between the enclosed central region and the exterior ...

Abstract: A series of early‐age creep tests was conducted on mass‐concrete mixtures to be used in the construction of locks and dams. Tests were conducted to determine creep at ages of loading from 18 h through several days. While ...

Abstract: We develop a design procedure to determine the minimum thickness of a protective soil layer over a barrier layer in a landfill cover design. The procedure equates the minimum thickness of the overlying protective layer to ...

Abstract: A family of closed-form formulas for calculating minimum corner-fill radii in planar sections of tube hydroformed products is introduced. Corner forming limit diagrams relating the limiting major ...

Abstract: The possibility of improving the fatigue strength of bonded double strap joints by reducing the stress concentration, inherently encountered at the conventional square (90 deg) strap edge, was ...