Abstract: The design of ultra-deepwater offshore pipeline is often based on the wall thickness and material grade selection to resist the local buckling due to bending, axial tension, and external pressure. Typically, this load ...

Abstract: A statistical analysis is performed to determine the probability distribution applicable to spectral integrals. This analysis shows that, since the spectrum of a stationary Gaussian random process follows a chi-square ...

Abstract: A spectral wave model based on a numerical solution of the radiative transfer equation is used to create a synthetic data base on wave conditions within hurricanes. The results indicate that both the velocity of forward ...

Abstract: New evidence about the time domain operation of centrifugal compressors and pumps in compliant systems is presented. Data from Toyama [1,2] plus unpublished data from another compressor indicate ...

Abstract: The two common approaches to estimation of truck accident rates are an aggregate method, in which the data from all available road segments are pooled, and a segment-specific method, in which separate accident-rate estimates ...

Abstract: The results of the writers' opposing wind laboratory experiments are developed for use in practical wave prediction problems. Relationships are presented for the decay of swell in opposing wind situations. An opposing wind ...

Abstract: A predictive model of hurricane wind waves is based on the radiative transfer equation and a directional frequency spectrum description of the sea state throughout the solution field. Propagation, refraction and shoaling ...

Abstract: A new method for collecting in-vivo bone strain data in monkeys has been developed and tested. The method includes a system which consists of a new design of implantable strain transducer and ...

Abstract: A computer algorithm is developed that provides efficient means to compute transmittances directly from a signal flow graph or a block diagram. Signal flow graphs are cast as directed graphs ...