Abstract: The critical path method has been increasingly used as an administrative and legal tool rather than as a planning instrument. The writer claims that this evolution has made its planning function of little use to the ...

Abstract: We extend the classical Jintegral approach to calculate the energy release rate of cracks by prolonging the contour path of integration across a tractiontransmitting interphase that accounts for various phenomena occurring ...

Abstract: Surface waters in the Gulf of Alaska undergo a net dilution throughout most of the. year since the regional precipitation exceeds evaporation. Recent hydrographic data give evidence that seasonal dynamic height fluctuations ...

Abstract: In seeking an efficient arrangement for the bearing cables of a cable-stayed bridge, inspiration is drawn from the natural wrinkling behavior of in-plane stressed triangular membranes. The bridge deck is thought of as being ...

Abstract: A method based on global horizontal borrowing would seem more appropriate than the current method of local vertical borrowing for the correction of negative values of mixing ratios arising in spectral models as a consequence ...

Abstract: Two series of sea surface temperature observations reported for Station P (50°N, 145°W) during the period 1952?65 are compared. One series consists of either engine intake or surface bucket temperature measurements (TS) ...

Abstract: Cantilevered laminated glass balustrades present design challenges. The cross-sectional warping allowed by the end constraint induces such strong asymmetrical deformations that traditional methods, defining the effective ...

Abstract: Consider a linear elastic infinite disk, a sector of which, of arbitrary opening angle 2β, is subjected to a uniform temperature increase ΔT with respect to the complementary portion. An analytical solution is sought, ...

Abstract: Numerical approaches are elaborated to calculate the rheological response of laminated glass beams, whose viscoelastic interlayer is modeled via fractional calculus. This mathematical description is very effective when the ...