Abstract: The categorization and quantification of the type, severity, and extent of surface distress is a primary method for assessing the condition of highway pavements. Various methodologies were developed to automate pavement ...

Abstract: The paper considers barreling of a mild steel cylindrical shell as a way of improving its load carrying capacity when subjected to static external pressure. Numerical results show that the ...

Abstract: New digital control algorithms have been developed to achieve the desired transmissibility function for a microgravity isolation system. Two approaches have been presented for the controller design ...

Abstract: An analysis of test system misalignment is presented for the creep test. Sheet type rectangular 1100-0 aluminum specimens are used for discussion. It is found that the creep strain at the ...

Abstract: The problem of a two-dimensional cavity flow of an ideal fluid with small unsteady disturbances in a gravity free field is considered. By regarding the unsteady motion as a small-perturbation ...

Abstract: Recently an exact theory for the cavity flow past an obstacle of arbitrary profile at an arbitrary cavitation number has been developed by adopting a free-streamline wake model. The analysis ...

Abstract: Many intrinsic problems associated with the modeling of hot forming processes are described. In the updated Lagrangian finite element technique both the momentum and energy equations are formulated ...

Abstract: The problem of determining the limiting (or absolute optimum) performance of mechanical systems subject to steady-state loadings is considered. By replacing portions of a system by generic forces ...