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Abstract: When monotonically increasing tensile opening loads are applied to a cracked, plane strain, elastic-plastic body, the crack tip will blunt until fracture occurs. At least within the rigid-plastic ...

Abstract: The turbulence or ?gustiness? of the winds new the surface in a mountain valley increases sharply after the nocturnal inversion layer dissipates, normally in the late morning or early afternoon. This increase?almost all ...

Abstract: Oriental philosophies relate to an essentially rural society, and in consequence the attitude of Asian societies to the environment has previously been one of conservation or sustainable development. However, over the ...

Abstract: This editorial gives me an opportunity to introduce myself as the new editor of the Journal of Applied Mechanics. I succeed Lewis Wheeler who served almost ten years at the head of the ...

Abstract: This paper describes the recently developed thrust-measurement technique, a quasi-primary method, that is capable of calibrating very large ASME nozzles. The technique is an application of Newton’s ...