Abstract: An experimental investigation has been conducted to study the dynamic failure of bimaterial interfaces. Interfacial crack growth is observed using dynamic photoelasticity and characterized in terms ...

Abstract: The total cost of a pumped water supply system includes the capital costs of the pipeline and pumping units, the replacement costs of various components included, and the energy costs related to the system’s operation. The ...

Abstract: The method of singular value decomposition is shown to have useful application to the problem of reducing the equations of motion for a class of constrained dynamical systems to their minimum ...

Abstract: The use of flow resistance in the distribution of flows is well known in traditional hydraulics. To evenly distributed flows, flow resistance forms the basis of flow distribution in pipes connected in parallel. Flow ...

Abstract: The equations of motion for a flexible structure during deployment from and retraction into a base that is part of an open-loop multi-body chain are derived. The eigenfunctions of a fixed-free ...

Abstract: A simple and accurate method is developed for designing single, paired, and tapered microirrigation laterals. The hydraulics of the lateral is evaluated using a lateral discharge equation approach. A simple power equation ...

Abstract: Optimization of concrete structures at the conceptual design stage has been based so far on informal methods. The designer would use his expertise, which is often heuristic, to find optimum solutions. The optimization at ...

Abstract: The operation of multistage pumps transporting water from the source to the delivery point requires balancing of the pressure at the junction of the pump and pipeline according to their characteristics. In this paper, ...

Abstract: An optimal design method for a drip submain manifold is presented. The optimal design is based on the shortest route algorithm for acyclic networks. Different route lengths are represented by total annual costs of different ...