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Abstract: Atherosclerosis, a disease of large- and medium-size arteries, is the chief cause of death in the United States and in most of the western world. Severe atherosclerosis interferes with blood ...

Abstract: A simple nonlinear theory of viscoelasticity has been developed for application to elastomers. The theory is the viscoelastic generalization of the kinetic theory of rubber elasticity, and it ...

Abstract: The effective moduli are derived for a composite material containing platelet-type inclusions. The platelets are taken to be randomly oriented in three-dimensional space and to have so large a ...

Abstract: In many applications for which planar tubular steel trusses are considered appropriate, chords consisting of double rectangular hollow sections (RHS) have several advantages over their single‐chord counterparts. For ...

Abstract: Structural integrity of the Space Shuttle orbiter vehicle is assured primarily through analysis. The analysis is supplemented by tests intended to validate analysis methods or, in some cases, ...