Abstract: A complementary energy functional is used to derive an infinite system of two-dimensional differential equations and appropriate boundary conditions for stresses and displacements in homogeneous ...

Abstract: The velocity field for creeping viscous flow around a solid sphere due to a spherically symmetric thermal field is determined and a simple thermal generalization of Stokes’ formula is obtained. ...

Abstract: A solution is presented of the problem of vibrations of a taut cable equipped with a concentrated viscous damper. The solution is expressed in terms of damped complex-valued modes, leading to ...

Abstract: A method of solution in terms of polynomials is developed for some integral equations that arise in connection with boundary-value problems for the circular disk. The key result is a Neumann ...

Abstract: The notion of a non-stationary narrow-band stochastic process is introduced without reference to a frequency spectrum, and the joint distribution function of two consecutive maxima is approximated ...

Abstract: A linear theory for pretwisted elastic beams subjected to general loads is developed from the potential energy functional. The longitudinal strain distribution is that of a similar beam without ...

Abstract: The axisymmetric problem of a vibrating elastic plate on an elastic half space is solved by a direct method, in which the contact stresses and the normal displacements of the plate are taken ...

Abstract: A theory is developed for pretwisted beams with finite shear flexibility. The effect of pretwist is accounted for via the axial derivative of the St. Venant warping function. The shear flexibility ...

Abstract: A simple theory is developed for the coupled warping and cross‐sectional distortion at joints between thin‐walled I‐beams. Continuity of the joined flanges and the local character of the cross‐sectional distortion permit ...

Abstract: A response analysis procedure is developed for oscillators with highly nonlinear stiffness and light nonlinear damping excited by non-white wide-band random noise based on local similarity between ...