Abstract: A method of calculating the creep deflections and predicting the creep collapse of a thin-walled circular cylindrical shell, subject to uniform external radial pressure and arbitrary temperature ...

Abstract: The application of fault tree techniques to the analysis of gear trains is considered. The techniques involve the decomposition of the system into a logic diagram or fault tree in which certain ...

Abstract: A unified passive damping design algorithm, using active control design techniques and least squares method, is developed to improve the stability and performance of closed-loop controlled structures. ...

Abstract: Large structures used in space applications, are made flexible to reduce the high cost of lifting mass to orbit. These highly flexible structures will inevitably be vulnerable to dynamic ...

Abstract: Thermal reliability of the solder sealing ring of Agilent Technologies’ bubble-actuated photonic cross-connect switches has been investigated in this paper. Emphasis is placed on the determination ...